Danube Dialogues 2022
ARTEMOVA INNA
Inna Artemova studied architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI). As young architect she received the 2nd prize of the Russian Federation in 1995. In 1998 she relocated to Berlin where she lives as a visual artist since. Her art works in painting are concerned with the friction between architecture and Utopia,- its failures, success and dreams, which she paints in large scale, on cut out surfaces placed over whole spaces and in small intimate works on paper. Artemova works have been exhibited over Europe in Germany, Austria, Italy, England, Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark, overseas in the USA, Japan, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 2019, the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts Kyrgyzstan presented her works in the solo show “Landscapes of Tomorrow”. In 2020 her work was exhibited in the Lahore Biennial 02 in Pakistan. Most recently her artworks have been selected for the publication and exhibition “Dissonance. Platform Germany”, the most significant 81 painters of the “after the wall generation”, working in Germany today.
BÁLIND ISTVÁN
Graduated from the painting department of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 1981. Lived in Yugoslavia until 1991, then moved to Hungary. Lives and works in Budapest. He is a member of several art associations. Participated in numerous international colonies in Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary and Serbia. So far, he has held almost forty independent and more than one hundred and eighty joint exhibitions.
BOŽIĆ ĐANINO
Đanino Božić graduated in fine arts in 1986 (sculpture) at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka. He has been holding solo exhibitions since 1984 (Zagreb, Ljubljana, Poreč, Rijeka; Rovinj, Novigrad, Koper, Prague, Munich, Ulm). Since 1985, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions of contemporary art in Croatia and abroad. He regularly participates in group exhibitions of HDLU (Istria and Rijeka). In 2000, he participated in the international exchange project of HDLU Istria and Mobius Association from Boston (Boston, USA) called “Taking Liberty”. He also deals with drawing, artists’ books, installations and environments. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards: 1989 Rijeka Youth Biennial Award; In 2001, the honorary award of the International Drawing Exhibition Rijeka and the annual award of HDLU; 2002. honorary award of the 3rd Croatian drawing triennial, Zagreb; In 2013, the honorary award of the City of Novigrad for cultural contribution. In 2012, he was issued a monograph on the occasion of 25 years of work (HDLU Istria and Medit, Pula). He lives and works as an independent artist in Novigrad and Labinci.
CHASELING CLAUDIA
Claudia Chaseling is an international artist, born in Munich, Germany, and currently living and working in Berlin. She received a Masters degree in Visual Art, from the University of the Arts in Berlin and a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Art) from the Australian National University in Canberra. Claudia is known for the practice of Spatial Painting, site-mutative biomorphic abstract murals, which cover walls, floors and ceilings. These works are drafted from one particular viewpoint, to distort and dissolve the familiar geometry of the space, whilst carrying socio-political meaning. In 2013 she published the graphic novel Murphy the mutant that became an anchor for her work to follow. Claudia has exhibited her work in over seventy solo and group exhibitions, notably in the United States, Australia and Europe. Among others her work has been featured in the X-Border Biennial, Finland, the Luela Art Biennial, Sweden and the Lorne Biennial, Australia. Recent projects include solo exhibitions at Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia; Wollongong Art Gallery Australia; Krohne Art Collection Duisburg, Rohkunstbau 26 in Lieberose and Momentum Berlin, Germany; and at Art in Buildings, New York City and Milwaukee, USA. Major grants and scholarships received continuously. The Verlag für zeitgenoessische Kunst und Theorie Berlin published her monograph in 2016. In 2022 the book Dissonance, Platform Germany has been published featuring her work and 81 of the most important painters of her millennial post-wall generation, working in Germany today.
ČEPIN MATEJ
He has presented his work at numerous independent (KiBela, MMC KIBLA, Maribor, The Wondrous Gardens of Mrs R., 2015; Murska Sobota Gallery, Where Are We Now, 2016; Likovni salon Gallery, Celje, Para-Noir, 2016; Mihelič Gallery, Ptuj, Owls Are Not What They Seem, 2015; Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, A Nice Day, Isn’t It, 2013; Plevnik-Kronkowska Gallery, La Notte, 2015; Billet House Gallery, Winter, 2015, and The Return, 2019; St Anna am Aigen (Austria), King in Yellow, 2015 etc.) and group exhibitions (Piran City Gallery, Murska Sobota Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Slovenj Gradec, MIG 21 / KIBLA PORTAL, Maribor, Pogled 8 at Lamut’s Art Salon, Kostanjevica na Krki, etc.). For his creative work, he has received several awards and prizes, among them the second prize at the 4th Biennial of Small-Size Paintings in Ljutomer in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the international painting event Ex–tempore in Piran in 2009 and 2013. He has been nominated for the Grand Prize four times (2008, 2009, 2013 and 2016). He lives and works in Celje.
ČOBAL BOGDAN
Painter, graphic artist, art pedagogue and gallerist who graduated painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1967 under Maksim Sedej. He has taught art education in primary schools, was the head of visual merchandising, advertising, and interior design at the Maribor Secondary School of Commerce in Maribor from 1975 to 1989. From 1989 to 1999, he taught art theory and painting at the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Education where he was appointed assistant professor in 1988 and associate professor in 1997. Despite retiring in 1999, he continued to teach Graphics and Art at several art and engineering faculties. He has been a member of the Maribor Fine Artists Society (DLUM) since 1971; he was the President of DLUM for several mandates, and the President of the Art Council until 2019. He is regarded as one of Slovenia’s most prominent visual artists of the second half of the 20th century. His work includes intaglio and flat prints, computer graphics, as well as acrylic and oil on canvas paintings. His research and work focus on the interactions of space, light, and colour. Čobal works with space in both his paintings and the spaces in which his works are displayed: he designs his exhibitions himself using computer simulation, making the exhibition space his work of art.
DESTIL MARKOVIĆ MILOVAN
Milovan Destil Markovic, has exhibited extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia and Americas since the 1980s, and his active career now spans more than 40 years. His work was featured at 42nd Venice Biennial (Aperto ’86), 4th Istanbul Biennial, 46th Venice Biennial, 6th Triennial India New Delhi, 56th 49th and 24th October Salon Belgrade, 5th Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Kumamoto, MoMA PS1 New York, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Saarland Museum Saarbrücken, The Artist’s Museum Lodz, National Museum Prague, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Landesmuseum Graz, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, National Gallery Athens, Military Museum Istanbul, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunstvorenigen Bergen, Kunstverein Jena, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Kunstverein Duisburg, Gallery F15 Oslo, Nishido Contemporary Art Tokyo, Fei Contemporary Art Center Shanghai, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana and many others.
FAT MILOŠ
Miloš Fath is a young audiovisual and performance artist from Novi Sad. Studies multimedia at Novi Sad Academy of Arts. His background and approach are multidisciplinary and experimental, driven by combining visual and applied art, technology, literature, and mysticism, with a strong focus on storytelling and critical inquiry.
GEIGER THOMAS
Thomas Geiger, born in Germany, is an interdisciplinary artist living in Vienna. In his artistic practice he uses performance, sculpture, and language in diverse combinations to create stage-like situations and playful scenarios. He often suspends classical delineations of public, private, and institutional space. In recent years he has realized projects with CAC Brétigny, Biennale für Freiburg, Kunsthalle Wien, Wiener Festwochen or steirischer herbst, Graz.
GOLEC METKA / TONI SOPRANO
Tony Soprano is one half of the former son:DA tandem, active on the Slovenian and international visual arts scene for over 15 years. Working independently since 2015, she is an intermedia artist, and her diverse practice includes photography, sound performance, space design, scenography, drawing, video, and digital projects using social media.
HAPPY TRASH PRODUCTION
The group was founded in 2003 by Branislav Petric, Stanisa Dautovic, Dragan Matic, Zeljko Piskoric, Vladimir Marko and Duska Karanov. In their work they use different languages and ways of expression- from images, installations, audio-visual pieces and performance to marginal languages and actions. They try to leave behind occupied and over-crowded spaces in contemporary art. They tend not to adhere to strict principles but rather follow modified and imposed outside influences and circumstances. As a result, in the last few years our focus has shifted from ’creating’ to ‘redirection’ of filtered content. This openness, incompleteness and communicability of the system we are trying to establish serves to seek and hanker for genuine and fresh art, and lack of mannerism.’
HASEGAWA AI
HASEGAWA Ai produced many works putting emphasis on subjects relating to technology and people employing techniques such as Bio Art, Speculative Design. Ai produces provocative work and incites discussion, continually seeking answers to questions on ethical barriers through technology. She graduated from IAMAS JP, MA at RCA UK (2012), MAS at MIT Media Lab USA(2016) and has been working as a special researcher at the University of Tokyo since 2017. She published a design education book “Revolutionary 20XX” in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in Design Society (Nanshan, China), Design Museum (Holon, Israel), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), The XXII Triennale di Milano and so on.
HAYASHI TOMOHIKO
HAYASHI Tomohiko is a design and innovation director. He finds challenge in creating global cutting-edge services. Cannes Lions Mobile Jury /One show Creative Use of Data / Digital Craft / Interactive Jury/ Japan media arts festival Grand Prize/ SXSW interactive awards finalist.
HOJSTRIČOVÁ JANA
doc. Mgr.art Jana Hojstričová graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She works as a photographer and as a teacher. Since 1998 she has been teaching at the Department of Photography and New Media at AFAD. In the art scene she entered in the 90s of the 20th century. The main theme of her photographic work is a body, which she puts into context with the growing influence of consumer society on it. Currently she focuses her photographic creation on visual sociological interpretation of the state of today‘s family.
INESCU NONA
Nona Inescu lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Bucharest, Romania. She completed her studies in the summer of 2016 at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (Photography and Video Department) after studying at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London (2009-2010) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2010-2011). Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary and includes photography, installation, sculptures and video works. Currently, Nona Inescu is represented by SpazioA Gallery in Pistoia, Italy.
JAKŠIĆ MILAN
He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1977. From 1975 to 1979, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad. He has been a member of SULUV since 1985. From 1994 to 2001, he was the president of the Association of Visual Artists of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Exhibited at more than 200 collective and 14 individual exhibitions in the country and abroad. He is the winner of several awards. Lives and works in Pančevo.
JUHÁSZ ROKKO
Rokko Juhász lives and works in Budapest (H) and Puerto Vallarta (MEX), is an intermedia-oriented visual artist, poet and art-organizer. He has performed hundreds of performances around the world and published six books of experimental poetry. Since 1987 he has been active as a performance artist, curator, publisher, workshop facilitator, editor and organizer. He has organized a total of 30 international performance art festivals under the Transart Communication banner. Since 2009 he has conducted dozens of performance art workshops in Slovakia, Chile, Israel, India, Mexico, Hong Kong and China. Since 2011 he has been working with long duration performance projects such as Where are you Piri (since 2017 about unconditional love). Made in Czechoslovakia in 1922 (traveling with grandpa’s suitcase. Since 2018). Paranormal Sport Activity (since 1996). Another of his significant areas is ad-hoc performance in public spaces.
JEVRIĆ TIJANA
Tijana Jevrić is a media artist who works in a multimedial field of art. She graduated in New Media arts at the Academy of Art in Novi Sad. Her work is based on the research of the ever growing impact of media culture as a producer of social „reality“ and consciousness. She researches the movement of an individual in virtual space. The media she works in are video, audio visual installations and short movies. She is in her fourth year of studies She has presented her own works during panel discussions, various programs and projects both in Serbia and other European countries. She is a member of Shortz team, an international video and film festival.
KALUDJEROVIĆ DEJAN
Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He gained an MA in visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2004. For his achievements in visual arts, Kaludjerović was granted an honorable Austrian citizenship. Since finishing his studies in 2004, Dejan Kaludjerović has been exploring the conjunction between consumerism and childhood, to analyse identity formation and stability of representational forms. Most of his paintings, drawings, objects, videos and installations, employ the processes of recycling, copying and re-enacting, thus creating patterns that simulate mechanical reproduction, and criticise homogeneity embedded in popular culture. In recent years he has realised projects with 10th Bucharest Biennale; 8th Sinop Biennale; 6th Athens Biennale; 28th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana; steirischer herbst 21; 55th International October Salon Belgrade; 6th Moscow Biennale – Special Project Alanica. The Experimental Method and Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna (solo); He is living and working in Vienna and Belgrade.
KAZEEM-KAMIŃSKI BELINDA
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a writer, artist, and scholar. Rooted in Black feminist theory, she has developed a research-based and process-oriented investigative practice that often deals with archives, specifically with the voids in public archives and collections. Interlacing the documentary with the fictional, her works manifest themselves through a variety of media and dissect the present of an everlasting colonial past: a past without closure.
KEREKES LÁSZLÓ
LÁSZLÓ KEREKES – Stara Moravica 1954 – Berlin, 2011. He graduated from Belgrade’s Higher Pedagogical School, Department of Conservation, in 1980. He was a multimedia artist, performer, and the first Trans-avant-garde painter in Yugoslavia. He joined the Bosch+Bosch Group at the invitation of Bálint Szombathy in 1971 and was a member until 1975. From 1988, he lived and worked in West Berlin. From 1976 to 1982, he traveled through Asia, Europe, and Africa. In 1984, he became the graphic designer of Új Symposion, a Vojvodina avantgarde magazine. On his fiftieth birthday, in 2004, he symbolically retired from public artistic performances. He lived in Subotica, Novi Sad, and Berlin.
KINKA RITA
Pianist. She graduated at the University of Novi Sad‘s Academy of Arts (where she is currently a professor) under Arbo Valdma, and finished her studies at the Juilliard School under György Sándor after she was granted the Gina Bachauer scholarship. Kinka started a concert and recording career after winning the 1988 International Festival of Young Performers in Bordeaux; she had previously been prized at Zwickau’s Robert Schumann, Brussels’ Queen Elisabeth (Most promising artist prize), Munich’s ARD and Sydney‘s competitions. Three years later she was awarded the Women of Europe Award for the best European interpreter from the European Commission.
KLEINDIENST STAŠ
Staš Kleindienst finished his BA in painting in 2007 and MA in fine art in 2009 at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the main national visual arts award for young visual artists. In 2019 he received the Highest Artistic Title of the University of Ljubljana. In 2023 he received the Rihard Jakopič Award, the highest national award for achievements in fine and visual arts in Slovenia. He lives and works in Vipava, Slovenia.
KNEŽEVIĆ RADOMIR
He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1983. He received his master’s degree in 1988. He has been a member of ULUS since 1984. He started working at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1989, where he is currently a full professor. He has exhibited independently in over forty exhibitions, and in over one hundred and fifty group exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has exhibited in Paris, Milan, New Mexico, Buenos Aires, Maribor, Amsterdam, Kiel, Malmö, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Vienna, Ljubljana … He has drawn, painted, made murals and objects. For the last 15 years, he has been intensively involved in the construction of buildings related to the theme of nature.
KODAMA SACHIKO
KODAMA Sachiko links emerging natural phenomena with plastic art to create mixed media works that reference the relationship between organic form/motion and light/sound. After graduating in Physics from the Department of Science at Hokkaido University, she enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the University of Tsukuba, where she obtained her master and PhD in Art and Design. Currently she is an associate professor of Art at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica Center/Linz, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Wexner Center for the Arts/Columbus, Skirball Cultural Center/Los Angeles, The National Art Center/Tokyo, Reina Sofia National Museum/Madrid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
KOVAČIČ MARKO A.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, in 1988 he completed a specialization in sculpture. Founding member of the Ana Monro Theater (1981–1991), the R IRWIN S group (1983–1985) and the Zlati Kastrioti group (since 2000). As an independent multimedia and interdisciplinary artist, he is involved in performance, sculpture, installations, video, music, film and theater.
KRIŽANEC BOJANA
She graduated in Sculpture and Ceramics at the Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts in Ljubljana. She works in different media. In her works she focuses on cultural and social differences between genders and their roles in the society. She is interested in stark contrasts like black and white, male and female, strong and weak. In ceramics she uses simple and clear forms that she decorates with a limited color palette – usually black, red and gold only. Her work is very graphic and direct.
MILENKOVIĆ NEMANJA
Nemanja Milenković got his BA (2019) and MA degree (2021) at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts as a student of the Painting department, class of professor Dragan Matić. From 2020 works as a teaching assistant at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts, Painting department. Had 13 solo exhibitions and took part in over 30 group exhibitions in the country and abroad. Winner of several awards and acknowledgements, among which the distinguished Annual Prize of the Department of Fine Arts for the most successful artistic work from the artistic discipline PAINTING (2019). Member of SULUV (The Association of Artists of Vojvodina) and The Shock Cooperative, where he works as a gallery curator.
NGUYEN KVET (HOA NGUYEN THI)
Kvet Nguyen is an Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava graduate. She became Photographer of the year in 2021 and a laureate of Young Artist award by Tatra Banka foundation for her work Reframing possibilities (2020). Kvet Nguyen deals with the themes of otherness and identity not only in her art projects, but also tries to talk about it outright and open a discussion in interviews or other platforms.
OKADA HIROKO
Okada Hiroko was educated at Tama Art University, where she graduated in 1993, majoring in oil painting. Okada’s work includes video and photographic content, installations, and performances. Her creativity often focuses on social issues, but she also expresses her personal experience of love, marriage, and motherhood. Recently, she has worked on projects that include alternative puppet theatre and collaborations with other contemporary performance artists. Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
OKADA TOMOHIRO
Okada Tomohiro studied at the University of Tokyo as Media theory and PhD at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, the school’s first on the subject of creative industries. After cooperating in the start-up of several ICT companies, OKADA worked as a creative industry policy formation support in Fukuoka and other local governments, As Director of the Creative Cluster Institute (Tokyo), he is involved in activities for socialization and industrialization of cutting-edge areas through art, culture, and design “Social Capitalist” in Japan and worldwide. As a curator, he is known for his “Fantasista” series, which introduced innovative artists, and his “Small Reboots” series, composed of artists who set the guidelines for the post-great reset, and continues to introduce a new art scene from Japan.
ONE DOLLAR BILL (MARKO JAKŠE, BOJAN ŠUMONJA, PJER TOL)
Marko Jakše was born in 1959 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and graduated in 1987 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In 1993, he moved from the city to the countryside: he lives and works as a freelance artist in the village of Mohorje, Slovenia. In 2022, he will exhibit independently at the 59th Biennale in Venice. / Bojan Šumonja, born in 1960 in Pula, Croatia, graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Pula. He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy, where he studied sculpture under the mentorship of Prof. Tramontina. He graduated in 1984. From 1985 he studied graphics in Milan. So far, he has participated in over 200 group exhibitions and had over a hundred solo exhibitions. He currently lives and works in Pula, where he also runs the Pula Gallery. / Pierre Tol was born in 1970 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and started working in photography and film for a commercial studio there in the late 1980s. In the mid-90s, he began performing and creating multimedia content, audio/music, installations, performances, photography, film, and video, as well as projects as an independent artist and in collaboration with many artists and groups, mostly international bands.
PETROVIĆ ALEKSANDAR
Prvak Opere SNP. Tenor Aleksandar Sasha Petrovic was born in 1972 in Novi Sad, where he graduated from the Academy of Arts, first at the Department of Music Pedagogy, and than at the Department of Solo Singing, in class of Professor Vera Kovac Vitkai. He debuted on the scene of Serbian National Theater with role of Alfredo in Strauss operetta “The Bat”. This was followed by a variety of roles. He also made a successful cooperation with Belgrade “Madlenianum” Theatre. He performed with philharmonics and symphonic orchestras and operas in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia and Italy.
POZNIČ ZORAN
Academic sculptor Zoran Poznič was born in 1959 in Trbovlje, Slovenia. After finishing elementary school he enrolled in the Secondary School of Printing and Paper (1979), following the Secondary School of Logistics (2003). In 2007 he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design within the University of Ljubljana, where he was part of the sculpture deparment. He did a master’s thesis on the social structure of the video, which gained him his master’s degree in new visual communications and media in 2010. He also mentored several art groups and expert juries.During and after his studies he had several local and international art exhibitions. In 2012 he received a local award (prvojunijska nagrada Občine Trbovlje) from his hometown of Trbovlje for his life work. Both in 2016 and 2017 he received an award for innovation (srebrni znak za inovacije) awarded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, and in 2018 he was also awarded by the Slovene Tourist Organization for the originality of his idea “Virtual Polygon: The Hole to the Future”. He has been the director of the Cultural Institute Trbovlje since 2008 and the vice president of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies since 2017.
PREDIN ROK
Rok Predin is a visual artist and director of an animated film who graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2004. Soon after, he started making short, animated films and music videos, and in 2009, he moved to London, where he joined the animation production company Trunk Animation. He has made short, animated films, commercials, music videos, TV commercials, and stage projections. In 2012, he created a series of projections for Queen Elizabeth, which were projected onto the facade of Buckingham Palace on the 60th anniversary of her reign. His short, animated film, One of a Kind, won the audience award in 2014 in Stuttgart. Among his clients are big names from the music industry, such as the Rolling Stones, Elton John, U2, Take That, and Madness. He recently participated in the performance of an animated video for the legendary Beatles. He has directed commercials for Jaguar, Canon, and Coca-Cola, among others. He created a series of scenography and video projections for the Slovenian National Theater Maribor and collaborated with the Maribor Puppet Theater as a director, scenographer, and author of visual art. He lives and works in Maribor.
RĂDUȚĂ CRISTIAN
Cristian Răduță lives and works in Bucharest where he co-founded Sandwich art space. His artistic practice includes sculptures, objects and installations that start from hypothetical, sometimes absurd situations and characters which are humorously employed. Among others, he is interested in the relationships and tensions that form among the various industrial and bricolage materials he uses.
RASOVSZKY LEA
Lea Rasovszky is interested in marginal cultural subjects, from areas such as kitsch, manele, social underdogs, non-conforming bodies and individuals, and “psychological peripheries” that are not purely social. Her artworks are, most often, portraits in motion of people, situations, and emotions filtered through an ironic and rough drawing style paired with installations that highlight the stereotypes and values of the society towards which she has a critical view. Selected shows: Flowers Growing Out of My Chest, Mobius Gallery (RO, solo), BRUIAJ, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara (RO), EX-EAST Past and Recent Stories of the Romanian Avant-gardes, Espace Niemeyer, Paris (FR), Life a User’s Manual: Who’s afraid of politics?, Art Encounters II edition, Timisoara, (RO), FLIRT, Im Hinterzimmer, Karlsruhe (DE), Building Modern Bodies, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (CH), Inventing the Truth. On Fiction and Reality, The Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, 56th edition of the Venice Art Biennial (IT), PASAJ, The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Anexa, Bucharest (RO).
REPNIK VLADO
Vlado Gotvan Repnik (stage name babaLAN) was born in 1961 in Celje, Slovenia. He is an academic painter, theater and radio director, and Master of Arts. His field of work is performance, new media, and visual arts. After graduating from the Miha Pintar Toledo elementary school, he attended Velenjska Gymnasium. Then, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (ALUO) and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT). Since 1990, he has had the status of an independent artist. As a multimedia artist, he works with the intrusion of the real, manifestations, visual lectures, and other paradoxical connections. As a visiting artist, he occasionally teaches at various art institutions at home and abroad. Abroad, his work has been presented at international festivals and published in Berlin, Prague, Paris, Madrid, Avignon, Maubeuge, Zagreb, Belgrade, London, Rome, Tallinn, Lisbon, Barcelona, Vienna, Athens and Tokyo.
RITS-VOLLOCH RACHEL
Rachel Rits-Volloch is a graduate of Harvard University with a BA degree in Literature and holds an M.Phil and PhD from the University of Cambridge in Film Studies. She wrote her dissertation on visceral spectatorship in contemporary cinema, focusing on the biological basis of embodiment. In 2016-2017, Rachel Rits-Volloch was Visiting Professor at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, lecturing in the MFA program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” and the PhD program in Artistic Research. Rachel Rits-Volloch founded MOMENTUM in 2010 in Sydney, Australia, as a parallel event to the 17th Biennale of Sydney. MOMENTUM moved to Berlin in January 2011, and since that time has evolved into a non-profit global platform for time-based art, with headquarters at the thriving Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center. MOMENTUM’s mission is to continuously reassess the growing diversity and relevance of time-based practices, with an aim to support artists and artistic innovation in Berlin and worldwide. MOMENTUM’s program is composed of local and international Exhibitions, Artist and Curator Residencies, Video Art in Public Space Initiatives, a Performance Program and Archive, an Education Program and Archive, and a growing Collection. Since MOMENTUM’s inception in May 2010, Rachel Rits-Volloch has curated or produced over 100 Exhibitions and Events worldwide, showing the work of more than 600 artists, as well as over 60 Education Events, in addition to an ongoing program of Artistic Research Residencies which has so far hosted 45 international artists, alongside a diversity of related programming. She has curated a large number of major exhibitions all around the world.
SZOMBATHY BÁLINT
Bálint Szombathy is a visual artist working in several media (installation, performance, electrographics, Eternal Network, post-conceptualism, visual poetry, video art, art criticism). 1969–1976 founding member of Bosch+Bosch Art Group, Subotica, Serbia and author of the book B+B, Novi Sad, 2019. Participated in numerous performance art festivals (Transart Communication, Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Polysonneries, European Performance Art Festival, Perforium, Fix, Paris-Berlin Recontres, Time-Story Telling Festival etc.) and international art exhibitions. Won prizes and awards Sava Šumanović Prize, Novi Sad, 2007; Mihály Munkácsy Award, Budapest, 2008; Vladislav Ribnikar Prize for the best exhibition in Serbia in 2014, Belgrade, 2015; Hungarian Order Knight’s Cross, Budapest, 2018. His works are among others in the collections of Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Tate, London.
ŠKULEC RASTISLAV
Rastislav Škulec graduated from the Academy of Arts – painting department (class of professor Jovan Rakidžić) in 1989. He is a member of ULUV. One of the founders of the Novi Sad urban legend, called The Yellow House, in 1988. In 1990, together with Zoran Pantelić, he founded the art group Absolutno sculpturalno, which later grew into the Association Absolutno. In 1996, he lost interest in exhibiting and terminated his cooperation with the Absolutno Association. He returned to the art scene in 2000 with a solo exhibition in the Zlatno oko gallery. He works as an art teacher in the towns of Mladenovo and Begeč. He deals with different types of artistic expression. Exhibited at several solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad.
ŠOŠKIĆ NENAD
Nenad Šoškić graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 1994, and completed his postgraduate studies in 1996 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a professor at the study programme Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. From 2008 – 2014 he was the dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. From 2014 he has held the position of business director of the Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica. He started his artistic activity by participating in the important visual events, such as: Youth Biennale, Vršac (1994), The Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje (1994, 1997), Sculpture Triennial, Pančevo (1997), as well as exhibitions at the art institutions of the former Yugoslavia. He is a participant of many exhibitions of contemporary art of Montenegro held abroad and, in recent years, he has done significant art projects in the USA and Italy. Several of his sculptures are displayed in the public spaces in Montenegro. He is the winner of the Montenegro Academy of Science and Art Award (2004), Milunović – Stijović – Lubarda Award, the Award of the Traditional Exhibition of ULUCG, Podgorica (2000), etc.
ŠUBIC JOŽE
Born in 1958 in Maribor, Slovenia. In 1982, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he later completed the graphics special course under the mentorship of prof. Gustav Gnamuš. He received many awards and recognitions for his work. Šubic lives and creates in Maribor.
TAKANORI ISHIZUKA
Through his work, Takanori Ishizuka portrays invisible phenomena and conditions as animal characters in the form of paintings, sculptures, and installations. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Japan and worldwide; they are part of the MSU [Anon1] collection in Tokyo.
TOKIN VESNA
Vesna Tokin graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting, with prof. Milan Blanuša. She has been a member of ULUS (Association of Visual Artists of Serbia) since 1999. Since 2006, she has been an independent artist. She is engaged in painting, multimedia projects and research in the field of film and video. She has exhibited at numerous exhibitions and festivals in the country and abroad: Rio de Janeiro, Belgrade, Ljubljana, St. Petersburg, Manchester, Liverpool, Novi Sad, Manosque, Gër, Thessaloniki, Pančevo, Vršac, Athens… After graduating, as an academic painter, over time, she directed her interests and creativity towards research in the field of development of consciousness and spirituality. She is a teacher and a master of several energy-spiritual methods. She practices traditional Chinese techniques Tai Chi Chuan and Qi gong.
TOMAŽ DOBRILA PETER
Peter Tomaž Dobril, independent intermedia artist, is an electrical and computer engineer, and a musician who focuses on the creative use of new technologies. He has presented, exhibited and lectured around the world. He is a member of the European Academy of Digital Media (EADiM). In 1996, he co-founded the Multimedia Center KIBLA (MMC KIBLA) in Maribor and was its leader and president. In 2008 he founded and was the president of the Scientific Research Association for Arts, Cultural and Educational Programs and Technology EPEKA, which was the first in Slovenia to acquire the status of a social enterprise. He is the co-initiator and co-author of the winning candidacy of Maribor for the European Capital of Culture 2012, the co-initiator of Ljubljana 2010 – World Book Capital (UNESCO) and the co-initiator of Maribor 2013 – European Youth Capital. In 2009 and 2010 he was employed at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia as Director General of the Directorate for Art. In 2010, he co-founded the X-OP Society for Contemporary Art. In 2011 he co-created the exhibition Contemporary Art from Slovenia at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2012, he was the Commissioner for Slovenia at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. In 2014, he founded the Association for Art and Audio-Visual Production CODE BLUE.
TRIAŠKA JAN
Jan Triaška finished his Master and PhD studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava at the painting studio of professor Ján Berger. Currently he leads STARTUP Studio at the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica where he is also a Head of the painting department. „Ján Triaška primarily works with the medium of painting, adapting it for conceptual extensions. Although his work continually expresses his interest in reality, he develops several independent ideas reflecting upon the current issues and providing a critical view on today’s society. In his creation, he often returns to his older cycles and enhances them with new experiences, and even intervenes the final artworks to update them with new insights“ Michal Stolarik, Art Curator. He regularly exhibits in Slovakia and abroad and his works are part of many permanent collections in galleries in Slovakia.
TRIAŠKA STEFANOVIĆ OLJA
Olja Triaška Stefanović is a visual artist and a photographer born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia. During the 1990’s, she settled in Bratislava, Slovakia where she lives and works. She is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava, currently the Head of the Department of Photography and New Media and lead photography studio – Studio of Photography and Critical Practice. Many of her previous exhibition projects focused on the historical, political and cultural context of former Yugoslavia and consequences of the civil war in the 1990s. In addition, her visual researches show a special interest in the space, history and architecture of Eastern Europe. She regularly exhibits both in Slovakia and internationally. In 2015 she was declared the photographer of the year in Slovakia, she is the laureate of the Foundation Novum (Grant for contemporary Artist in Bratislava) and Laureate of the Mayor’s Prize in Bratislava. Her works can be found in the collections of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, and City Gallery in Nitra, Slovakia. She is a Fulbright grantee for 2022/2023.
UJHAZI ADRIENN
Adrienn Újházi completed her bachelor studies 2018. and master’s studies in 2020. at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, at the Department of Fine Arts, study group – Painting. She worked (2020-2021.) as a professor at the high school for design Bogdan Šuput (Novi Sad) in the field of Art Technician. In 2021 she won the status of an independent artist. She received several scholarships and awards. She actively participates in exhibitions, projects and collaborations, and her work has been shown at numerous museums and festivals worldwide. Újházi is a member of the Shock Cooperative in Novi Sad, Híd Kör Art magazine and the SULUV. Her current research, BIOFABRIKA, is supported by the European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022.
VARL PETRA
Varl Petra is visual artist working in the field of drawing, graphic art and spatial installations. In more than thirty years of practice, she has been intensively involved in drawing and has developed a characteristic visual language that addresses the viewer in a direct but at the same time poetical way. Recently, her main interest is creating multimedia spatial installations which are flirting with aspects of performative art. By removing redundant elements, she builds a completely new space, in which she brings to the fore the experience of the viewer, who breathes life into the work of art in a precisely designed ambience. She has participated in numerous local and international exhibitions and residencies. In 1996 she represented Slovenia at the São Paulo Biennale with her project Commonplace. She is the recipient of the Zlata ptica award for visual arts (1995) and the Ivana Kobilca award for the Near Light installation at the Božidar Jakac Gallery in Kostanjevica (2018). Since 2010 she is a full professor at the Department of Fine Arts at of the Faculty of Education at the University of Maribor, where she teaches drawing and graphic art.
VELCIOV MIKI
Miki Velciov works on the interference between painting, object, installation, interventions in nature and land art. He began by studying the primordial elements of nature, such as earth, water, air, seeking to make a true x-ray of the hidden layers of reality, that reveal the fragility of various life forms in the context of the loss of balance between man and nature, through the overexploitation of resources. Thus, its interventions in nature have a critical character, revealing the problems that already affect us globally. Later, Velciov became known for his installations with a privileged point of view, which reveal, through various forms of spatial restriction, the illusion of absolute control and the impossibility of the utopian perfection of these systems.
VUJINOVIĆ TANJA
Tatjana (Tanja) Vujinovic is an established new media artist creating sculptures, virtual worlds and electronic music active within the art world since the mid-90s. She has shown these artworks at numerous prestigious and underground festivals, museums, and galleries worldwide. Tanja Vujinovic’s multidisciplinary art practice involves the creation of virtual reality art installations, events, 3D compositions, ambient electronica and Techno tracks. Living in Ljubljana, and working internationally since 1997, Tanja creates art projects that have been presented to thousands of people around the world. Optimism, positive energy, equal rights to healthy living environments, and freedom of expression are some of the core values her art projects are built upon, while being inspired by science, the early rave movement, and the impact of technology on humankind. In recent years, she also began publishing her own techno tracks and DJing.
ZIROJEVIĆ LEČIĆ BOSILJKA
Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić graduated painting from the Academy of Art in Novi Sad in 1994, completing her post-diploma studies in 2000. She now teaches painting at the Academy. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Arts of Vojvodina and the Association of Fine Arts of Serbia since 1995 and works with other artists on multimedia projects in the Multiflex group. Since 1992, she has shown at over 120 group exhibitions at home and abroad (China, Germany, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Austria) and 23 solo exhibitions. She has received several awards for her work.
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Danica Bićanić (RS)
Danica Bićanić (1985), completed her master’s studies in sculpture at the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, in 2010 under Prof. Gordana Kaljalović and is currently studying for a doctorate in fine arts. Active since 2006, she has had fourteen solo and several group exhibitions along with other appearances in Serbia and abroad. She has won several awards and is a member of the presidency of the Vojvodina Association of Fine Artists (SULUV). She lives and works as an independent artist in Novi Sad.
diSTRUKTURA (RS)
Milica Milicevic and Milan Bosnic have MAs in painting from the University of Arts, Belgrade. Though diverse in their individual ventures in group and solo exhibitions, as diSTRUKTURA they have been working on joint projects for the past 15 years. They express their ideas in a variety of media, mostly photography, painting, drawing and video. Besides figuring in over 30 solo and 70 group exhibitions, they have also been involved in several artist-in-residence programs and workshops.
Nadezhda Dzhakova (BG)
Nadezhda Dzhakova, PhD, is an art historian, critic, curator, and head of the Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art, Bulgaria. Her research areas are contemporary art, museum practice, curating, and audience development. Apart from being the author of numerous books and articles, she has initiated national and international projects covering over a 100 exhibitions of contemporary art. She is also a guest lecturer at the University of Architecture (Sofia).
Stevan Kojić (RS)
Stevan Kojić (1973) graduated in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He is a full professor of New Fine Media at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro. He also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje. Winner of several art awards in Serbia and abroad, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions, festivals and symposiums both nationally and internationally.
Sanja Kojić Mladenov (RS)
Sanja Kojić Mladenov, PhD, is a curator, art historian and researcher in the field of recent artistic practice, media and gender. Graduating in History of Art from the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, she obtained an MSc and PhD in interdisciplinary gender studies at the University of Novi Sad. Senior curator at the Vojvodina Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad (MOCAV), she curated the Serbian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, which won the UniCredit Venice Award. Author and curator of many themed exhibitions and research projects in Serbia and abroad.
Yavor Kostadinov (BG)
Yavor Kostadinov (1993) graduated in painting from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. In 2015 he studied at the Accademia di belle arti di Brera, Milan, Italy. He has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria and internationally. Winner of several awards for young artists. His works are part of the collections of several galleries (Hristo Tsokev, Gabrovo, Dimitar Dobrovich, Sliven, Kiril Petrov, Montana; Corporate Collection of Allianz Bulgaria, Sofia). Lives and works in Plovdiv.
Adeline Kueh (SG)
Adeline Kueh makes installations, photography and embodied works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Her works are imbued with a sense of desire and longing, and act as modern-day totems that explore personal histories and overlooked moments. Using drawing as a conceptual tool, Adeline tries to map out the historical trajectories across time and space through her use of found objects and new production. Lives and works in Singapore.
Ludmil Lazarov (BG)
Born 1955 in Bulgaria, Ludmil LAZAROV is a freelance artist. In 1985 he graduated in painting in the first class of Prof. Ivan Kirkov from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. From 1991 to 2003 he lived and worked in Paris. Presently based and working in Sofia.
Diana Marincu (RO)
Diana Marincu is a curator and art critic. She holds an MA in history and theory of art from the National University of Arts in Bucharest and is a PhD. student at the same university. Her research is into curatorial discourses of identity and periphery, built around certain geographical criteria in major exhibitions and biennials. With “Fiction and Reality”, she represented Romania at the 56th Venice Biennale. Diana is also artistic director of the Art Encounters Foundation.
Andrea Medar (RO)
Andrea Medar (1990) is a Romanian visual artist. Trained as a painter, she is currently interested in objects and environments, sculptures, media installations and video. Her images rewrite her own, personal imagery in an always surprising and paradoxically very direct alphabet which associates contrasting elements and constructs encrypted images not easily or fully open to the viewer. Lives and works in Târgu-Jiu and Timișoara.
Liliana Mercioiu Popa (RO)
Liliana Mercioiu Popa (1975) is a Romanian visual artist based in Timişoara, where she teaches painting at the Faculty of Art and Design and is active in the artist groups IN-FORMAT and Avantpost. Her work consists of various forms of expression, from painting and drawing to installations and photography. Her interests are nuanced through her personal view of the macro and micro historical contexts and the poetics/politics of space with human and nonhuman coexistence as species.
Charles Merewether (GE)
Dr Charles Merewether is an art historian, author and curator who lives in Tbilisi, and has worked in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. The author of many exhibitions and publications, including Born in Edinburgh, he received his BA (literature) and PhD in art history at the University of Sydney. He taught European modernism at University of Sydney (1981-84), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (1986-88), Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona (1992), the University of Southern California (2000) and was a visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014) and Baptist University, Hong Kong (2015).
Svetlana Mladenov (RS)
Svetlana Mladenov, art historian, critic and curator, is the author of many art events, exhibitions, festivals, campaigns, meetings, workshops. She was director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Centre for Culture in Pančevo and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the Applied Artists’ and Designers’ Association of Serbia (ULUPUDS), and the Serbian Association of Art Historians. Founder and director of the Association for Visual Arts and Culture VISART. Lives and works in Novi Sad.
Vuyisile Mshudulu (ZA)
Director – Arts, Culture and Heritage City of Johannesburg. Vuyisile Mshudulu is the Director of Arts, Culture and Heritage in the City of Johannesburg. With an experience that span over 25 years in the Creative Industries. Mshudulu encompasses a wealth of experience and unique mix of expertise having worked in both the private and public sector. His areas of expertise include policy development, promotion and development of the Creative Industries. He has vast programme and project management experience in enterprise development and market access, both locally and internationally in the Creative Industries. Mshudulu is a specialist in cultural diplomacy and governance.
Karolina Mudrinski (RS)
Karolina Mudrinski (1973) was born in Novi Sad. She has an MA in interdisciplinary studies from the Arts Faculty of Belgrade University, Department of Digital Art, and a PhD from the Arts Academy, Novi Sad. She has shown at numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, taken part in professional symposiums and engaged in educational work. She is the recipient of several awards, among them: third place for contemporary art at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2015 (Linz, Austria) and the Centre for the Promotion of Science, Belgrade, and first prize in a competition for Contemporary Production of Modern Art at the Izba Gallery, Belgrade, in 2005. Member of the Vojvodina Association of Fine artists and Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany. Lives and works in Novi Sad.
Tomohiro Okada (JP)
Tomohiro Okada is an interdisciplinary creative and innovation developer, researcher, and policymaker, director of Creative Cluster. Since 1995 he has been active in electronic media and creative innovation in Japan, especially promoting young talent in new media art and interaction design as a researcher, producer, curator, writer and organizer of numerous creative productions and policy designs for government and institutions for economics, industry and cultural affairs.
Slavica Popov (RS)
Slavica Popov (1976) graduated from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Since 2008 she has worked as a curator at the Contemporary Gallery, Zrenjanin, where she participated in planning and mounting contemporary art exhibitions while promoting the Gallery’s public image. As a curator of the Gallery’s art collection, she works on the professional processing of museum material.
Ana Prvački (RS/DE)
Ana Prvački is an interdisciplinary artist working in watercolor, video, performance and augmented reality. She creates imaginative tools for the challenges of daily life, drawing on such fields of interest as music, theatre, mask design, architecture, fine art and beekeeping. She has held solo exhibitions and projects in Singapore, Los Angeles, Boston, Turin, etc. Her work has also been included in many international exhibitions.
Antoni Rayzhekov (BG/AT)
Antoni Rayzhekov is a conceptual media artist and researcher. He works at the intersection between sound and visual arts, computational arts, performance and science. He creates audio-visual installations, interactive objects, body-and-lecture-performances. His works are based on scientific theory, statistical data or archival information. He is an associate lecturer at the University for Applied Science, St. Pölten, and a guest lecturer at the National Academy of Art, Bulgaria.
Venelin Shurelov (BG)
Venelin Shurelov graduated in scenography from the National Academy of Art, Bulgaria, where he received a PhD. He is a co-founder and associate professor in the MA program of digital arts at the National Academy of Art; co-founder and part of the curatorial team and technical organizer of DA Fest, International Digital Art Festival, Sofia, co-founder of DA LAB Foundation, founder of ‘Subhuman Theatre’ and the international art group ‘Via Pontica’ (2002-2005). He is the author of various interactive installations/performances. In 2011 he gave the cyber lecture “Man Ex Machina”, and in 2016 directed a durational performance/installation, “Post-Everything”, as guest lecturer at Towson University, USA.
Monika Sigeti (RS)
Monika Sigeti (1979) studied at the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad. She has a BA in painting and an MA in new media art and inter-media research. Her performative practice covers a variety of media from drawings, collages and paintings to photography, videos and installations. She explores the boundaries of her own identity as well as the correlation between real, virtual, intimate and public space. Since 1997, she has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad.
Ivana Sremčević Matijević (RS)
Ivana Sremčević Matijević is an engineer of graphic engineering, design and applied photography. She is the author of several short films, television commercials, promotional programs and cultural TV shows. For several years she worked as a journalist and television director for a local independent production network and for the public service Radio-Television Vojvodina, RTV. Mentor of numerous creative workshops for children. Since 2001, director and producer of the International Video Festival, Videomedeja.
Sava Stepanov (RS)
Sava Stepanov (1951), art critic, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Worked in the Gallery of Matica Srpska, the Photo Gallery, the Centre for Visual Culture Zlatno Oko and the Vojvodina Institute for Culture. Author of numerous exhibitions and participant in many symposiums. Editor for fine arts and illustrative material in the Encyclopedia of Vojvodina, Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Art (VANU). He has written several books and monographs on artists and contemporary art and won several awards. He lives and works in Novi Sad.
Sasho Stoitzov (BG)
Sasho Stoitzov (1952) graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Sofia, and from TCI College, NYC, in digital media arts technology. Since the 80’s he has been very active on the art scene in Bulgaria and internationally. Since 2014, he is the organizer of contemporary art events in Blagoevgrad: Spring Festival for Contemporary Art, STAICHKI and the Painting Symposium. His works form part of collections in the National Gallery for Art, the Sofia Art Gallery and MMOMA, Moscow. He lives and works in Sofia and New York.
Nataša Teofilović (RS)
Nataša Teofilović is a visual media artist and associate professor at the ‘Singidunum’ Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade. Her artistic approach evolved from neo-conceptual art of the early 90’s to digital art of the new century which merges art, science and technology. She received honorary mentions from the Prix Ars Electronica 2016, the international competition for digital art of the European Organization for Nuclear Research– CERN (Geneva), and the Ars Electronica festival. Author of the first book published in Serbia to explore the theory and practice of 3D character animation.
Oana Paula Vainer (RO/DE)
Oana Paula Vainer graduated from the National University of Arts, Bucharest, and the Arts and Design Academy, Stuttgart. In 2007 she stopped working with ceramics and started experimenting with performance, video and new ways of expressing herself, avoiding traditional media. Now she uses her body and sometimes everyday elements as work materials. Her practice interrogates social and personal realities and references the social and political realities of the place she has left and the place where she lives.
Anna Vasof (GR/AT)
Anna Vasof is an architect and media artist. She studied architecture at the University of Thessaly in Greece and Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her videos and short movies have been presented at several festivals. In 2020 she completed her PhD. thesis on a cinematographic technique she developed herself, titled Non Stop Stop Motion. She works on designing innovative mechanisms for producing critical and narrative videos, actions and installations.
Dragan Vojvodić (RS)
Dragan Vojvodić is multimedia artist who began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, expressing himself through various
forms of media (performance, installation, video, photography, etc.). He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, international festivals and residency projects. His works are to be found in the collections of several museums and galleries in Europe. Lives and works in Novi Sad.
Ana Vrtačnik (RS)
Ana Vrtačnik completed her bachelor and master studies in painting at the Department of Fine Arts of the Academy of Art in Novi Sad. She is currently working on a doctoral thesis focusing on bio-mimetic formations and their applicability to the visual arts. So far she has held solo and group exhibitions and collaborated and published with various artists, curators, institutions and galleries all over the world. She has won several awards in the field of art. She lives and creates in Novi Sad.
Anica Vučetić (RS)
Anica Vučetić (1962) graduated in painting from the University of Arts, Belgrade. Some of her selected solo exhibitions have been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), Ibirapuera, São Paulo; the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen; Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematograficos, Havana; Belgrade Cultural Centre; the Museum of contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka; Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor; and elsewhere. Her work is based on video installations and video environments. She won the Politika Award for the best exhibition in 2008.
Divna Vuksanović (RS)
Divna Vuksanović was born in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Art and from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, receiving an MA in theatre studies in 1992 and a PhD in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics in 1998. Since 1997 she has taught at the Faculty of Dramatic Art, where in 2011 she was appointed to full professorship in the chair of theory and history. She is president of the Serbian Society for Aesthetics and the “Mladi grašak” (Young Peas) Citizens’ Association for Art, Culture, Media and Social Affairs, Belgrade. To date she has published over a hundred academic papers, six studies of philosophy, and edited a dozen academic publications in the fields of aesthetics and the philosophy of media and culture. She has also published 13 books of poetry, poetic prose, short stories and romanoid.
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Adam, Ana (1964) Studied at “Ioan Andreescu” Art Academy in Cluj-Napoca. Since 1994 teaches at The Fine Arts High School in Timisoara. Selected exhibitions: Drawing is witchcraft or the other way round, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara (2020, solo); Hangs by a Thread, Borderline Art Space, Iasi, (2019, solo); Haptic Ecstasy, Atelier 35, București (2019, solo); WeTransfer: Art and Politics in Appropriate Hands, Timișoara, (2019); Mother Tongue, Sector 1 Gallery, București (2019); The Unpleasant Show, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara (2019); Danube dialogues 2019, National Museum, Veliko Gradište, City Museum of Novi Sad (2019); Form Follows Feeling, Epretext, Timișoara (2019); Blood, Stop, Space, Gold, Galeria Josedela Fuente, Santander (2018); Life a User’s Manual, Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara & Arad (2017); Art on Knees, Galleria 28, Timișoara (2007, solo). Lives and works in Timisoara (Romania).
Adamović, Ana (Belgrade, Serbia, 1974) Graduated at the Department for the World Literature at the Belgrade University and studied photography at the Art Institute of Boston. She holds a PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She is a founder of Belgrade based Kiosk Platform for Contemporary Art. She deals with issues of identity and memory, both personal and collective, by working on the long-term photography and video projects. Since 1999 her work has been exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).
Ćuk, Vuk (Belgrade, Serbia, 1987) Studied painting at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has participated in more than 30 group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Serbia, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, Russia, China and USA, and has had solo exhibitions in Belgrade, Vienna, Copenhagen and Augustenburg. He has presented his work at the most prestigious art fairs in Europe and, together with 10 other foreign artists, made the art book Endless Editions: Face to Face – Blind Date, which is part of the MoMA Library Collection, New York. In his work he researches the relation of man to the contemporary way of life with an emphasis on the influence of the development of digital media, technologies and communication. He expresses himself through painting, sculpture, and digital arts (VR, animation). He is the winner of the Recognition Award of the MAK Museum in Vienna, the Drawing Award from the Vladimir Veličković Fund, the Vladimir Vujačić Mirski Painting Award and the Sculpture Award at the Sculpture Symposium in Taiyuan, China. He is the author of several projects in public space. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).
Danneberg, Tatjana (Vienna, Austria, 1991) Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, 2020; Biennale Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, 2020; La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels (2020); FLUCA, Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv (2020); LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2020) and Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw (together with Marcin Zarzeka) (2019). She participated in group exhibitions such as Stay Safe at Shivers Only, Chantemanche (2020); Un barbare à Paris at Fondation D’entreprise Ricard, Paris (2018); Compositions curated by_ Thom as Jeppe & Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel at Charim Galerie, Vienna (2018); Scamming at Palazzo Lancia, Turin (2017); and Ratatouille at Shanaynay, Paris (2015). Her forthcoming exhibitions will be in Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg in 2021. Lives and works in Warsaw (Poland).
Djurić, Orjen (Zagreb, Croatia, 1987) Finished high school for woodcutting and was heavily involved in street art. Studied animation at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. During his studies he was mostly designing characters for cartoons. After graduation he finds a new interest for sculpting and changes his medium. The majority of materials he uses for his art are toys and objects created by mass industrial manufacturing, which he recycles. Orjen experiments with new materials and techniques, placing an accent on the exploration of the form and texture and their synthesis. Instead of working on the question of meaning, he rather evokes the question of “who we really are”, with the use of a universal language. He showcased at numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in Serbia and the region. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).
Hörl, Ottmar (Nauheim, Germany, 1950) German conceptual artist, sculptor, installation, action, photography, and object artist. From 1975 to 1978 he studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, before changing to the Academy of fine arts at Düsseldorf which he attended from 1978 to 1981. In 1999 he became a Professor of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Since 2005 Ottmar Hörl is the president of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He achieved worldwide popularity due to his radical, avant-garde art concepts as well as large-scale projects featuring serial sculptures in public spaces, based on his distinctive definition of sculpture as an organisational principle. He is considered as an “offensive and direct strategist campaigning for a new type of public art” and the most successful artist creating multiples, an artist implementing his vision of art for everyone and promoting the democratisation of sculpture like no other so far. Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Wertheim (Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
Hudec, Oto (Košice, Slovakia, 1981) Slovak multi-media artist who created his recent work in Slovakia, Austria, South Korea, Cabo Verde, Portugal and USA. He creates videos, murals, animations, sculptures and works for public spaces about immigration, refugees and the impact of globalization on the environment. His projects often involve a utopic perspective as a way to shed a light on food production, the industrial landscape, or the decline of bees. He is interested in ecological living, food production and sustainability, often from an indigenous perspective. He often cooperates on projects with children and youth from disadvantaged communities. Since 2013 he has been involved in participative project with Roma children in Slovakia such as Projekt Karavan, together with artist Daniela Krajčová. He was a finalist for the Oskar Čepan prize for young artists in 2012, Slovakia. At the moment he teaches at the Fine Arts Department, Technical University, Košice, Slovakia. He is represented by Gandy gallery, and works and lives in Košice (Slovakia).
Jecza, Peter (Sf.Gheorghe, Romania, 1939 – Timisoara, Romania, 2009) Studied at the Institute of Fine Arts “Ion Andreescu”, Cluj-Napoca (1957-1963). Former professor at The West University Timişoara, Faculty of Fine Arts (1963-2005) and a member of the Hungarian Academy. Selected recent exhibitions: Romania – Art Museum Craiova 2017; Art Museum “Palatele Brâncovenești” Bucharest 2017; Germany – Galerie Diehl Berlin 2016. International exhibitions: Biennial of Venice/Italy; Biennial of Sculpture Barcelona/Spain; Biennial Dante Ravenna/Italy; Biennial of Concrete Art Ljubljana/Slovenia; Quadrennial of Sculpture Riga/Lithuania; RBK Group Wuppertal/Germany; Exhibition of Sculpture in Milan/Italy, in Baukunst Gallery Köln/Germany. He was part of many international exhibitions in Italy, Yugoslavia, Germany, Spain, ex-URSS, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Syria, Sweden, Brazil, Jordan, Iraq, ex-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, SUA, Denmark, Norway, Holland. His works are part of many museum collections in Romania, Germany and Brazil.
Josipović, Ana She is a journalist and fashion artist. “By a strange twist of fate, I became the “first” in all my jobs − the first fashion editor in Grazia, GloriaGlam and Gloria magazines. I also launched Cosmopolitan.hr and Stilist magazine. In recent years, the internet and the street became my office. With my sister, Slavica Josipović, also a journalist, I design and run the fashion portal Style Zagreb, which writes about street fashion and talks about the culture of contemporary dressing. I make fashion reports for Croatian television shows. For the past ten years, I have been actively involved in humanitarian work, and lived in Africa and Cambodia for a while.” Lives and works in Zagreb (Croatia).
Lakner, Antal (Budapest, Hungary, 1966) Graduated from the Art Academy in Budapest and finishing his PhD study at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design. His works and projects were shown at biennales like the Biennale of São Paolo (2006), Manifesta 4 (2002), Venice Biennale of Art – Hungarian Pavilion (2001) and Istanbul Biennale (1997). Selected solo exhibitions: Timişoara Art Encounters and Glassyard Gallery (2019), Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2012), Art in General, New York (2006), Trafó Gallery, Budapest (2005). Selected group exhibitions : Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna (2015), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2015), Deutsches Hygienie-Museum, Dresden (2011), Casino Luxembourg (2009), National Museum of Art, Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo (2006), ZKM, Karlsruhe, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, Tri Postal, Lille (2004). Lives and works in Budapest (Hungary).
Lukić, Stefan (Užice, Serbia, 1985) Graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2018. He spent his third year of Bachelor studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris (ENSBA). Currently an MA student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He attended the Masterclass at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) in 2019. His vision is to record the universal state of being in transit, migration, in the motion. He is intrigued by travellers and eyewitnesses and therefore he presents them through his art. Roads, distances, and we as travelers become the connection between places, ideas and people. Received an award for the Best Painter of the Year by the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2016. He has had several solo exhibitions, including: Interspace at U10 Art Space, YUGOnostalgia at the Užice National Theater, Obverse and Reverse at the National Museum in Kragujevac. He has exhibited in group shows in Paris, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and Kragujevac amongst others. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).
Milosavljević, Milena (Novi Pazar, Serbia, 1986) Graduated from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Gordan Nikolić. She continued her education in Düsseldorf in the class of Richard Deacon and graduated as “Meisterstudentin” from Franka Hörnschemeyer. She is the author of numerous dialogues, collective and individual projects in Europe, USA and Asia. She was invited as a speaker to the META conference – Virtual Reality, NRW Forum Museum, Düsseldorf (2017) and took part in interdisciplinary artistic research of German art schools in Montepulciano (2018). In 2020, she was recommended by Richard Deacon and Dr. Günter Baumann for the Gerlinde Beck prize of 2021. Lives and works in Düsseldorf (Germany).
Moudov, Ivan (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1975) Graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia. His artistic practice comprises photography, video, performance and installations. In his work, which has a strong metaphoric charge, he questions the field of contemporary art within the systems of power as well as the sociopolitical and economic conditions; furthermore, by subverting the existing norms and rules he reveals the levers of their functioning. He has presented his work at numerous solo and group exhibitions: Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich), Kunstverein Braunschweig (Braunschweig), Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt), the 52nd Venice Biennale, the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK (Vienna). Lives and works in Sofia (Bulgaria).
Mureșan, Ioan Aurel (Ceanu Mare, Romania, 1956) Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Cluj Napoca. He holds PhD in visual arts. University professor at the University of Visual Arts and Design in Cluj Napoca. Solo exhibitions: 2019 Art Museum Oradea/2016 Zorzini Gallery Bucharest/2002 Crescent Theater, Birgmingham, UK/2000 National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca/1998 National Theater Galleries Bucharest/1997 Art Museum Oradea/1996 National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca,. International exhibitions: 2017 Pecs Gallery, HU/2011 Debrecen, HU/2004 Art Triennial Debrecen, HU/2003 Painting Triennial, Przemsyl, PL/2002 L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Liège, BE/2001 Bad Kissingen, DE/Amsterdam, Holland/Budapest, HU/1999-2000 Arts Europe, Mercato 2000, Directed by Emilia, IT/1999 Budapest, HU/Chateau “La Gruyère”, SZ/1995 DE/1994 Romanian Cultural Center, Paris, FR/1992 Lisbon, PT/Vac, HU/1991 A XXI Sao Paolo Art Biennial BR/1990 Szombathely, HU. Lives and works in Cluj Napoca (Romania).
Naumović, Veroljub (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1990) Completed his undergraduate and MA from the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Academy in Novi Sad in the class of Prof. Nikola Macura. He explores the ways in which art creates experience and the ways those experiences affect their subjects. Currently this exploration is focused on the relationship between humans and their bodies. From 2015. he has participated in numerous local and international group exhibitions and festivals, such as the exhibition Trag in Galerija Kuća Vojnovića in Inđija, Project Black Box at the Mikser festival in Belgrade, the international exhibition of student terracotta Prva zemlja at KC Fabrika in Novi Sad. He is also the author of three solo shows: deindividuation//methods and techniques at the Gallery “Hol”, Deindividuation at the SULUV and Experience the Material Body at the Gallery “Hol”. Lives and works in Novi Sad (Serbia).
Petrov, Pusha (Timisoara, Romania, 1984) Attended the École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in Metz, France. Graduated in fine arts (2009) and communication (2011). Her artistic journey has been enhanced by several collaborations with international artists and residencies, such as Cité des Arts Paris (2018-2019), Motoco Mulhouse (2019), Le STAMM Porrentruy (2020). Selected exhibitions: A causal Loop, “Charim” Gallery Vienna; Privilege, “Granit” Gallery Belfort; Ex-East, “Niemeyer Space” in Paris; The brick, la Brique, Caramida, “La Kunsthalle Mulhouse”; L’esprit parfaitement clair, “Santo Amor” Gallery, Lille; Soba (The Room), ICR Paris. Her work was also exhibited at the Daegu Photo Biennale (2018), the Art Encounters Biennale (2017) and the 18th International Biennale of Image in Nancy (2014). Currently her new work is showcased in collective shows at Passer (VII), EAC (les halles) Porrentruy, Petit programme, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, and Genealogy of Things, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt 2020. Lives and works between Timișoara (Romania) and Paris (France).
Radusin, Sanja (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1989) Completed her undergraduate and MA from the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Academy in Novi Sad in 2019. She has been a member of SULUV (Vojvodina Associations of Artists) since 2018. She worked as a teaching associate at the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Academy in Novi Sad. She had three solo exhibitions and took part in a large number of collective exhibitions. She was a participant in several art symposia. In 2017 she won the annual Fine Arts Academy award for the most successful work in the discipline of sculpture. Lives and works in Novi Sad and Kikinda (Serbia).
Say, Oleksiy (Kiev, Ukraine, 1975) In 1993 he graduated from Kiev Art-Industrial Technical School, Department of Graphic Design. Nearly ten years after, he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Architecture, Department of Easel Graphic. Oleksiy Say is one of the most famous Ukrainian contemporary artists today. He is renowned for his Microsoft Excel works of art as he uses this spreadsheet programme to create a truly modern imagery. Beside Excel, Oleksiy includes other segments of the corporate world designed to be means of communication, but not as artistic language. His work has drawn attention of the various international figures from the art world and collectors to the museums and art fairs. Lives and works in Kiev (Ukraine).
Stajčić, Milorad Mića (Belgrade, Serbia, 1977) Graduated in information technologies at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences and Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Prof. Mrđan Bajic. In his artistic work, he expresses himself through a variety of installations, video art, performance art, photography and sculpture. The most common topics are the consumer society, various human taboos, social values, religion, money… He is also co-founder of X Vitamin gallery. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).
Tatarević, Vladimir (Belgrade, Serbia) Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade. After completing his MA, he traveled the world and visited over thirty countries in the course of a two-year journey working for “Trans Ocean Photos”. In 2000, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, USA where he worked as a photographer for various companies. In summer 2002, he won first prize at the national competition of photographers “Life touch” in Atlanta. Towards the end of 2002, he returned to his hometown where he continued his career as a freelance artist. He earned his Master’s degree in the field of photography in 2007, with the theme PIXEL like Visual element. In 2020, he completed his PhD with the topic: Use and abuse of photography in marketing. Vladimir had seventeen solo exhibitions and has participated in several national and international group exhibitions. Lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).
Teofilović, Nataša (Pančevo, Serbia, 1968) Graduated architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Belgrade University. Obtained her PhD and MA degrees in Digital Art at the Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication of the Singidunum University in Belgrade. Nataša Teofilović is a visual artist who explores the incidence and identity of the feminine and the sensual in virtual space through new media and computer art. She works in a variety of media from experimental video and performance to 3D character animation, digital ambiences and generative art. Selected awards: Honorary mention Ars Electronica Festival, Linz 2016; Honorary mention at the first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@ CERN and the festival of digital art Ars Electronica 2011; Jury Selection at 15th Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo in 2011. Lives and works in Pančevo (Serbia).
Tinei, Alexander (Caushani, Moldova, 1967) Alexander Tinei describes himself as “an absolute product of Soviet culture, transformed into western culture, transformed into myself”. His striking portraits of tattooed young subjects reveal his preoccupation with issues concerning identity, belonging and faith. Tinei’s work is increasingly concerned with the phenomenon of instant global visibility via the internet and the exposure of people’s formerly private moments on the web. Tinei uses his traditional academic art training and painterly style to stage and submerge these new “icons” of cyberspace within the traditional context of portraiture. The protagonist is then subject to Tinei’s own interpretation of events; re-staged in a new context perhaps or altered by the addition of strange blue lines and patterns on parts of the body. Lives and works in Budapest (Hungary).
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Ana-Mihaela Adam (Hunedoara County, Romania, 1964) She studied the classes of the tapestry and graphic department of the “Ioan Andreescu” Art Academy in Cluj-Napoca. Graduated in the graphic art department (1986-1992). She is a member of the Romanian Union of Fine Arts since 1993. Since 1992. Ana Adam cooperation with the “Dacia”, “Sedona”, “Brumar”, Hartmann and Elena Francisc publishing houses. Since 1994 she is a teacher at the Fine Arts High-School in Timisoara. Since 2002-2004 she cooperation with the Art-Therapy Center “dr. Eliza Ionescu” Timisoara, Romania. She had numerous solo and group exhibitions, in country and abroad (France, Spain, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Portugal).1999 she got UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Fellowship – Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. She got the “Invitation” for One month residency – Kunsthaus, Essen, Germany in 2001. She got The Austrian Airlines Prize Cultural excellence in 2002. She participated at “Paper Island” – Exhibition, Workshop, Symposium – Pecs and Siklos, Hungary in 2007.
Radoš Antonijević (Pančevo, Serbia, 1969) He grew up in Smederevo. He started studying sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1992, and graduated in 1997 as a student of the generation. From 1997 to 2000 he attended MA studies at the same Faculty. From 1999 to 2001, he worked on the founding of the City Gallery in Smederevo, and then became its first curator. Radoš started working at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2001 as an assistant, in 2007 he was elected an assistant professor, and since 2016 he has been working as an associate professor. He has been teaching Sculpting at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka since 2000. From 2010 to 2013 he participated in the founding and work of the group of artists The Third Belgrade. He defended his doctoral thesis on Form Correctives – a guide through sculptural phenomena in 2014.
Albena Baeva (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1983) She has two MAs; in Restoration (2008) and in Digital Art (2010) from the National Academy of Art in Sofia where she specializes in art technology practices from 12th to the 21st century. In 2011 she was awarded the international Essl Art Award for contemporary art and Vienna Insurance Group Special Invitation. In her interactive installations for urban spaces, galleries, theatre and dance she uses new technologies and creative programming. She is co-founder of Runabot project, a platform for interdisciplinary performances, studio for interactive design Reaktiv and experimental lab Symbiomatter. Within Runabout project she works with musicians, dancers, poets and engineers to create new interactive performance instruments. Her works have been shown in museums for contemporary art like Essl (Austria, 2011), EMMA (Finland, 2013), Museum for contemporary art Vojvodina (Serbia, 2015), at galleries and festivals for video and performance in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and USA.
Danica Bićanić (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1985) She acquired the masters degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad – Sculpture Department, in 2010. Since 2006, she had eight solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions, as well as several performances in Serbia and abroad (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Kingdom, SAD, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Austria and Germany). She was granted for several awards for artistic work. She was granted the Award for Most successful graduate work at the Sculpture Department (2008), “Art Clinics” Award “Perspective” for perspective student in category Sculpture (2008), “University of Novi Sad Award for excellent results achieved in the field of arts” (2009). She is a member of the Presidency of Union of Associations of Fine Artists of Vojvodina. Currently she is a student in the PhD program in fine arts at the Academy of Arts Novi Sad.
Iglika Christova (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1979) Visual artist with a dual Franco-Bulgarian nationality, Iglika Christova currently lives in Paris. Studying at the School of Fine Arts in Sofia, she continued her learning in France to perfect her knowledge, developing her artistic practice at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, then through the interdisciplinary fields of Arts & Sciences of art at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Iglika Christovas work proposes a theoretical and plastic study on the influence of microcosm on creative processes. Her artistic practice is based on the drawing as a universal and experimental language exploring the microcosm of living matter. As part of this research between art and science, Iglika Christova collaborates with various scientists in the field of biology.
Lana Čmajčanin (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) She lives and works between Sarajevo and Vienna. She has an MA from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Sarajevo and is currently a PhD scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Čmajčanin is engaged in an art practice that has a strong reference to a specific place, addresses the issues of geopolitical mapping, the political framework and distinctly includes the role of women and the female body. Furthermore, in her work, Lana explores the impact of political and social power structures and control mechanisms and question the issues of responsibility and manipulation. She explores the geopolitical and structural violence, the politics of memory, the practices of nationalist politics and neoliberal management of trauma. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and festivals and exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the world. Čmajčanin artworks were presented and shown at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna; Good Children Gallery, New Orleans; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia; Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris; Künstlerhaus Graz; Centre for Contemporary Art, Architecture, Society, Stockholm; NGBK- Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; CCA-The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, to name a few.
Goran Despotovski (Vršac, Serbia, 1972) Graduated and earned his master’s degree in painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He has exhibited at fifty-eight solo and numerous group exhibitions in the country and abroad, such as Subdued Existence, Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (2015), Kosice, Slovakia (2015) and Taichung, Taiwan (2014); Premonition/Blood/Hope, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria (2014); Identities Association for History, Co-operation and Reconciliation, Golubić, Croatia (2014); There will be no miracles here, Facing Belgrade – ein Einblick in die zeitgenössischen Kunstszene Serbiens, Karlsruhe, Germany (2013); Real life presence, organization MSUV and Landesmuseum Joanneum – Kunstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria (2009) He has been awarded several times. Author of projects Difference, Image and Book of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Professor at the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad at the Department of Painting. President of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina since 2017. In 2018, he received the D.F.A Degree at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
Tatjana Dimitrijević (Sombor, Serbia, 1965) Tatjana Dimitrijević graduated in 1988 from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting. From 2012 to 2016, she worked as an editor of fine art programmes at the ”Laza Kostić” Cultural Centre in Sombor. From 1989 to 2012, she was a professor of fine arts in primary and secondary schools. Tatjana Dimitrijević had nine solo exhibitions and participated in numerous collective exhibitions. She took part in several art colonies in Serbia and abroad, as well as in more than 30 accredited professional seminars in the field of fine arts pedagogy, contemporary teaching methodology, art history, aesthetics and developmental psychology. She organized more than 20 art workshops and lectures for children and young people. From 2009 to 2016, she organized street art events at Holy Trinity Square in Sombor.
Nóra Fekete (Debrecen, Hungary, 1975) She graduated from the Academy of Arts and Crafts (today MOME 1996-2001) and Academy of Fine Arts, Rome 2000/2001. She is a member of the National Association of Hungarian Creators 2001. In her works she uses unique techniques from the silk paint to the collage and embroidery. She tries to find a transition way between fine art and craft, functional textiles and the one-of-a-kind artworks.
Vladimir Frelih (Osijek, Croatia,1963) Vladimir Frelih graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and received a master’s degree in 2000. In his professional artistic work, he often deals with the concept of visualizing the media edges of both digital and analogous material media and their mutual communication, translatability, self-comprehensibility or compatibility. The final product, a work of art, is often an aesthetic, formative side effect underlying conceptual content, be it video, video installation, photography, web, computer program or object and image in all its variations. The individual, the community, the society are inseparable elements of artistic and pedagogical thinking. He exhibits in solo and group exhibitions and participates in various artistic projects, institutional and non-institutional. He has received several awards, and his artworks are part of numerous public and private collections and contemporary art foundations (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Stadt Düsseldorf, Museum of Contemporary art in Zagreb). He teaches photography, video and film, as well as multimedia at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. Since 2011, he has also been teaching contemporary art practice and methods of art research at the Academy of Arts Novi Sad as a visiting professor.
Patricija Gilyte (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1972) The visual repertoire of Germany-based Lithuanian artist Patricija Gilyte includes performative sculpture, video art and site specific installation. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree from Vilnius Art Academy, Kaunas Art Institute in 2000, and moved to Germany to continue her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions and video festivals internationally, was supported by grants and developed during the residencies and collaborative projects. She has received numerous solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide.
Ida Hiršenfelder (Slovenia, 1977) Ljubljana based media art curator, critic and sound artist. Her focus research areas are media archaeology and archives of media art. She was a member of Theremidi Orchestra noise collective. She works at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MUSM on projects related to digital archives. In collaboration with Saša Spačal she made a series of sonoseizmic installations (Crust, 2014, Sonoseismic Earth, 2015-2017) and other sound experiments. With Spačal she is also a co-initiator of ČIPke Platform for Women with a Sense for Science, Technology and Art. Time Displacement / Chemobrionic Garden in collaboration with Robertina Šebjanič and Aleš Hieng – Zergon was exhibited at Ars Electronica festival (2016) Radical Atoms exhibition in Linz and Device_art 5.016 exhibition in Montreal. Her sound composition were performed on Topographies of Sound festival, on radioCona, radia.fm, Radio ARS – 3 Programme of Radio Slovenia, ORF Kunstradio. Web: https://beepblip.org/
Aleš Hieng – Zergon (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1984) Chemical engineer by profession as well as a DJ, producer of electronic music and sound artist who also works in the field of audiovisual performances and in the vast field of DIY electronics. He is interested in club music as well as in sonic and audiovisual experimentations. His sounds range from deep house and techno to idm, noise and abstract drone music. He is a member of Synaptic Crew since 2003. He’s been releasing audio tracks on Chilli Space compilations since 2007. In 2012 he released Escalator EP on Synaptic Pathways label, and in 2016 his track got featured on a compilation released by Slovenian net-label Kamizdat. He’s a co-author of an audio-visual performance echo 10-9 together with Robertina Šebjanič. Notable events & appearances: Grajska Gospoda w/ Masayoshi Fujita, Grad Lemberg; MFRU/Kiblix, Maribor; Sonica Festival, Ljubljana; Strictly Analog Festival, Ljubljana; AMRO Festival, Linz; Piksel Festival, Bergen; Touch Me Festival, Zagreb; MusicTechFest/Earzoom, Ljubljana; Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; ZNFI, Trbovlje; Ars Electronica, Linz. Web: https://zergon.org/
Danica Jevđović (Užice, Serbia, 1992) She completed her Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts, Painting Department and Masters degree in Applied Arts – Book graphics and Illustration also at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She is a member of an art group SUEuKI and Association of Visual Artist Užice, as well as a participant of many collective and solo exhibitions. She participated in many group and solo exhibitions, international and local. Awarded multiple times by the University of Novi Sad for academic achievements (school year 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015). Received Dositeja scholarships by Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia in 2015. and 2016. Special award for the comic The Tunnel at the international comic festival Veles 2016in North Macedonia. She also received a reward 1000 Zato from The Fond ,,Nomen est omen” – Dobanovački for encouraging research and artistic creativity of students enrolled in Graphic communication Master program as well as a diploma Nadežda Petrović given by Fund Akademikfrom Užice for promoting and affirming humane and academic values.
Erika Kapronczai (Szigetvar, Hungary, 1985) Graduated from the University of Pécs – Faculty of Sciences (PTE BTK) in Aesthetics and also received a degree as a Film Director from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) in 2015. After making various short films (Well under the Sun – 2013; episode THREESOME in the omnibus film Meanwhile in Budapest – 2014) she co-founded and became the creative producer of the Dreamempire startup project from 2013. Kapronczai has since held exhibitions at the National Gallery of Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia), the A38 ship (Budapest, Hungary) and has also showcased the Dreampire project at the Central European University – CEU (Budapest, Hungary). Erika lives and works in Budapest.
Branimir Karanović (Belgrade, 1950) He graduated in 1974 from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, in the class of prof. Božidar Džmerković. He obtained his master’s degree in 1976 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (class of prof. Marko Krsmanović). Since 1974, he has been exhibiting at solo exhibitions (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zagreb, Rijeka, Ljubljana, Venice, Thessaloniki, Paris, Prague , etc.) and collective exhibitions at home and abroad (Belgrade, Krakow, Edinburgh, Lisbon, Thessaloniki, New York, Tuzla, Berlin, Ulaanbaatar, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Tokyo, Houston, etc.). He has won numerous awards in the country and abroad. From 1978 to 1997 he worked as the professor of photography at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and since 1996 he has been working as the professor of photography at the Graphics Department of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. In his work, he focuses on graphics and photography.
Kramar (Vienna, 1971) He lives in Vienna, Sabara and Tiraspol (Moldova). He has been interested in photography since childhood. He has been traveling and exploring the Eastern Bloc and their successor countries since a young age. He works in the field of art and design as an international, engaged and conceptual photographer. Since the 1990s, Kramar has been working on various projects related to picture, media, art and books in Austria, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. He is a recipient of the Austrian Film Office and the Robert Bosch Foundation fellowships.
Roman Kroke (North Sea Coast of Germany) Berlin based interdisciplinary artist, illustrator, curator, former lawyer. Direction of seminars as lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Development, coordination and direction of international projects: exhibitions, workshops and lectures. Interdisciplinary approach: Kroke’s projects aim at establishing a dialogue between the arts, natural sciences, philosophy, history, literature and pedagogy. Partnerships with universities, scientific research institutes, schools, memorial sites, prisons, museums, foundations and TV productions. His artworks and interviews have repeatedly been part of documentary movies shown on the European culture channel ARTE.
Gordana Kuč (Berane, Montenegro, 1970) Gordana Kuč graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in 1993, and received a master’s degree there in 2002. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro since 1994. So far, she has had seven solo and over fifty collective exhibitions. She participated in numerous very significant exhibitions and events in Montenegro and abroad. She exhibited in Vienna, Paris, Brussels, London, Zurich, Cairo, Beijing, as well as Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Skopje, etc. She won the following awards: “Milunović, Stijović, Lubarda” at the 72nd Traditional Exhibition of the Association of Fine Artists Montenegro (2017); Grand Prix at the 32nd Montenegrin Art Salon “November 13” (2010); Herceg Novi Winter Fine Art Salon (2008). Her artworks are found in renown museum and gallery collections, as well as in private collections. In addition to her active artistic work, Gordana Kuč worked as a curator at the Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro and as an independent advisor at the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro.
Sanja Latinović (Belgrade, Serbia, 1983) Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture. In 2016 she finished MA for Performance Art at HKB, Berne, Switzerland. Although a sculptor by vocation, Sanja focuses her work mainly on performance, video work and photography, choosing those carefully as the fields of her artistic expression in order to question the very medium of sculpture by exploring its transformative potential in the relations matter-space-form-idea. Sanja’s thematic preoccupations are mainly about problematizing the complex functioning of an individual in today’s world, our everyday confrontations with numerous and various forms of social determinations, imperatives, pressures. Dealing more with the emotionally psychological dimension of those relations, the artist proposes and articulates her own views through unpretentious, simplified visual solutions/performances forming them into a kind of metaphores about syndromes, states and processes that characterise the complex global image of the society. In the period from 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the Third Belgrade association with which she participated in many joint actions. Sanja Latinovic initiated the formation of Group 04, which is a generation of graduated sculptors from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2004), her classmates. Their field of interest is based on the position of the artist in the society.
Zmago Lenárdič (1959, Ljubljana, Slovenia) After having studied philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, he enrolled in the study of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1984. Then he gained a DAAD scholarship and acquired more expert knowledge at the Atelierhaus Worpswede. So far, he has realized over 30 solo exhibitions, painterly video installations, over 20 art videos, and participated at film festivals with his short films. In the 15-year long period as a freelancer in culture, he was active at home and abroad, receiving several expert awards, he represented Slovenia internationally at symposia and capitals of culture (Kopenhagen), and as artist- in-residence (Worpswede, Kleinsassen, New York, Düsseldorf), for the most part creating artworks eluding the existing and known paradigmatic patterns of the national visual scene. Since 2003 he has been employed at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana – professor for the subject of Painting.
Márta Mákkai (Budapest, 1952) She studied at the Hungarian Applied Art University, Budapest, at woved materials department. At the high school she studied painting. Her woved and painted tapestry are made by one individual technique. The topics are symbolic, stylized motifs, or figurative, landscape, plant-ornamental compositions. She has been doing art flags for exhibitions and festivals. Clothing and home textiles can be seen at exhibitions. She has performed at numerous exhibitions, abroad at group art flag exhibitions at Brussels, at EU headquarters, at Turnhout. Prizes: 2002. Szombathelyi Textilbiennálé, Rózsa Anna award, 2017. Balatontárlat, Balatonfüred city award, 2018. Keresztény Ikonográfiai Biennálé award, 2019. Ferenczy Noémi award. Works in public collections: Szombathelyi Képtár, Balaton Múzeum, Keszthely, Kecskeméti Képtár.
Pavlo Makov (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1958) He lives and works in Kharkov (Ukraine). He graduated from the Crimean Art College Department of Painting (Simferopol, Ukraine, 1979); at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1978); and at the Kharkov Art and Industrial Institute (1984). He is a member of the Artists’ Union of Ukraine, member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (London), and a correspondent member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, since 2006. Pavlo Makov is a participant and a winner of numerous awards at graphic exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. He is also a contributor to art projects in Ukraine and abroad. His works are exhibited in museum collections in Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, U.S.A. and other countries.
Lazar Marković (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1960) Lazar Marković graduated in graphic arts from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He received his master’s degree in graphic design from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He also holds a master’s degree from the Protestant Theological Seminary in Novi Sad, and a master’s degree from the Faculty of Management at Union University in Belgrade. In addition , he received a master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and a master’s degree in sculpture from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. At the moment, he attends specialised courses in terracotta sculpture at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. So far, he exhibited at 59 solo exhibitions (Novi Sad, Belgrade, Budapest, La Paz, etc.) and about 300 collective exhibitions in Serbia and abroad (Rome, Tokyo, Miami, Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Lodz, Miszkolc, Budapest, Hollabrunn, Skopje, Belgrade, Novi Sad, etc.). He has also exhibited photography in six solo exhibitions.
Dragan Matić (Bački Petrovac, Serbia, 1966) Dragan Matić graduated in painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 1991. In 2000, he also received a master’s degree in painting. He works at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad as a full professor, teaching the following courses: Painting, Technology of Painting Techniques, Art Techniques and Extended Space of Painting. His artistic work includes the medium of painting, ready-made, digital photography, video, performance, electronic sound, robot design. Dragan Matić is a member of the Multiflex and Happy Trash Production art groups and a recipient of several awards for his art work. From 2009 to 2012 , he taught painting as a visiting professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, Croatia. He is also involved in conservation and restoration, as well as in the fine art education of people with hearing loss.
Nemanja Nikolić (Valjevo, Serbia, 1987) Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2010, department of Painting. Currently a student of doctoral art studies at same faculty. Since 2007 his works was exhibited on numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. He has won several art awards, such as Award for drawing from Vladimir Veličković Fund, special award for mural and wall installation from Raiffeisen Bank and Gallery 12HUB and Award for an exceptional creative innovation from Miloš Bajić Fund. His works featured in many private and public collections including ABN AMRO collection in Amsterdam, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, WAP Foundation in Seoul, The Ekard Collection in Hague, Telenor Collection in Belgrade, Collection of October Salon (Cultural Center of Belgrade) etc. Nemanja Nikolić is initiator of Belgrade based U10 Art Space. Lives and works in Belgrade.
Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. Ana Nedeljković was born in Belgrade in 1978. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She was awarded a PhD in art practice at the same faculty. She is a visual artist, director and animator and is also active in art education.
Nikola Majdak Jr. was born in Slovenia in 1972. He has an MFA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, camera department. For the past 20 years he has been a freelance cameraman, animator, director and lecturer.
Their first film “Rabbitland” (2013) was awarded the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale. It has also received numerous other awards and has been shown at more than a hundred festivals worldwide.Their second film “Untravel” (2018) was also screened at numerous festivals including Berlinale, Annecy and Sundance, and nominated for the Annie Award.
Ghenadie Popescu (Moldova, 1971) He lives and works in Chisinau.He is interested in local (post-communist) particularities of common visions about identity, tradition, geopolitical mixture. Using different forms of expression such a performance, video, animation he refers to the absurdity of the world he lives and works in. He studied at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, Painting Department, on the basis of free attendance, Chisinau, Moldova. Since 2012 mostly has involved in personal stop-motion animation projects. The group exhibition: Expanded space, Bucharest, RO(2017); Attention borders, Labirint gallery, Lublin, Arsenal gallery Bialystok, PL(2017); Cronograf Documentary Film Festival, Chisinau, MD(2013-17); One six of the Earth, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilia y Leon, ES, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE; Shaping the new, Kosice, SK (2011);
Jovana Popić (Zadar, Croatia, 1977) Began her formal art studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade under the Serbian State Scholarship for Science and Art Talents. In 2006 she received the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Scholarship and later the President’s Prize toward her master’s degree under Rebecca Horn at the Universität der Künste-Berlin. Other awards include the Sennheiser’s Future Audio Artist Award, Codice MIA 2016 Award, Award of Ulrich and Burga Knispel Foundation, grants of the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, the United Kingdom of Norway, and other various artist grants and residencies. Popić has exhibited work in Europe, United States and Asia. She presently lives in Berlin. Education: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting, Master of Fine Arts (1999 – 2003); University of Art Berlin, Multimedia, master class Rebecca Horn, Bachelor of Fine Arts (2003 – 2008); University of Art Berlin, Multimedia, master class Rebecca Horn, Master of Fine Arts (2008 – 2009).
Andrea Ruttka (Budapest, Hungary, 1954) She studied at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts and earned a MA degree at the Design Department.. Also, she studied at Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts – evening course. Prizes: Industrial Textile Biennal/Award, Szombathely (1985); International Flag Bienall/Award, Szombathely (1998); International Flag Triennial/Award, Szombathely (2003); Textile Artist of Year/ Award (2011); Artwork.com /Award (2017).
Rudolf Sikora ( Slovakia, 1946) He has been one of the most original figures of Slovak visual art since the early 1970s. He based his work on a peculiar synthesis of “new sensibility” and conceptual thinking and later he enriched it with post-modern inspirations. He was involved in several areas of art; his work with painting, drawing, graphic art, photography, action art, the creation of objects and installations, and social activism is an inseparable aspect of his personality. Sikora studied at the Academy of Fine Arts an Design in Bratislava under Prof. Dezider Milly and Prof. Peter Matejka (1963 – 1969), where he later worked as professor (1990 – 2004), and continued in his pedagogical activities at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University of Košice (until 2011). He lives in Bratislava. He presented retrospective of his works at the National Gallery in Prague (Against Myself, 2006) and the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava (2008). Representation in collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Kupferstich Kabinett, Stadtsgalerie Dresden, Dresden; Photosammlung Museum Ludwig, Cologne ; Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Museum Bochum, Bochum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Národní galerie v Praze, Prague; Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava etc
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art. They worked at the IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan, at the ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan, the MIT CAVS in Cambridge US, the Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, USA, the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. In 2004 they sset up the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria where they are both professors. Sommerer is also a Visiting Professor at CAFA Central Academy of Fine Arts Bejing in 2019, a Visiting Professor at Tsukuba University in 2018 and an Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark from 2014-2016. Mignonneau was a Chair International Professor at Paris 8 University in France in 2015. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau created around 40 interactive artworks that have been exhibited in around 350 international exhibitions. She received numerous awards, f.e. the 2016 ARCO BEEP Award in Madrid Spain, the 2012 Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize which was bestowed by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and the 1994 Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica Award. http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent, http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at
Eszter Söptei (Celldömölk, Hungary, 1988) She graduated in Fashion and Textile Design and completed textile design specialization at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Her work is characterized by geometrical clarity and closeness. She strives to go beyond conventional use in textiles. Her goal is to change a plane surface textile to spatial textile.
Villő Steiner (Budapest, Hungary, 1970) She graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Craft and Design – Department of Textile, specialized in printed material design. In 2003 she got Erasmus Scholarship at the University of Fine Arts Athens. She exhibited at many individual and solo exhibition in the country and abroad.
Jelena Sredanović (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1982) She graduated in from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2005 and obtained Magister degree in 2009. She earned PhD degree at the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2016. Jelena Sredanović exhibited on numerous solo and group exhibitions and won several prizes for her work: 2017. Honorable mention Diploma, First International Printmaking Biennial Yerevan, Yerevan; 2017. First Award at the Third International Printmaking Triennial Belgrade, 2014. The Ministry of Culture Purchase Award at the Small Print Form Exhibition 2014, 2010. Veliki pečat Award, Gallery Grafički kolektiv, Belgrade, 2009. Second Award at “Walter Kotschatzky Kunst-Preis 2009” exhibition, MUMOK-Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; First Award at NS Salon 2009 Exhibition, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Novi Sad. Jelena is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She is a member of the Association of Artists of Vojvodina.
Bojan Stojčić (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1988) He is artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who graduated Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, and finished his master thesis about drawing in the same institution. His work was shown in multiple national and international exhibitions. Among other prizes and recognitions, Bojan Stojčić was a ZVONO award finalist (2014.) and was awarded «Best classical drawing» et the National drawing Biennale of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014). His works are collected by the Deutche Telekom, Digital Art Collection, the Agnès b Foundation, The Duplex collection and privates collection in Austria, France, BiH, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland.
Andrea Szilágyi (Oradea, Romania, 1977) She is a freelance leather goods designer. Since 2004 she has designed shoes and bags in limited edition for her own brand NES. In 2008 she made an active move more attentive to sustainable consumption and launched series of Conscious collections, giving second life to beautiful items of vintage materials. She is working with, eco-friendly leather with vegetal tanning, pre- and post – consumer recycled fur & leather, leather substitutes, such as Pinatex and natural raw gum. Thus tailor made options naturally made her move forward towards one of a kind solutions, ephemeral designs, and eventually fine arts. In 2017, she was nominated in the accessory designer category for the Glamour Women of the Year award in Hungary. Education: Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fashion Design at the University of Fine Art, Bucharest, 2003 Diploma of Fashion Studies at Studio BERC OT, Paris 2002
Robertina Šebjanič (Slovenia, 1975) She is working in the cross field of art – technology – science. Her art – research focus has recently been oriented towards the exploration of water habitats and marine life which serves as a starting point to investigate and tackle the philosophical questions on the intersection of art, technology and science. Her ideas and concepts are often realized in collaboration with others, through interdisciplinary and informal integration in her work. She is a member of Hackteria Network and Theremidi Orchestra. She was awarded with an Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica 2016 and nominated for STARTS2016 and for the White Aphroid award. She was SHAPE platform 2017 artist and in 2018 she was a resident at Ars Electronica (EMAP/EMARE). She performed / exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions as well as in galleries and festivals.
Ivana Tomanović (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1971) She graduated from the Faculty of Film and Television (FAMU) in Prague – Photography Department. From 2001 to 2015, she worked as an editor in the magazine for culture of photography – ReFoto (Belgrade). As an associate professor, she teaches photography at the Academy of Arts, of the University of Novi Sad and at the Academy of Arts of the Alfa University in Belgrade. She was the Artistic Director at Artget Gallery of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade for the season of 2016. She lectures regularly on the theory of photography and participates in numerous panel discussions within the framework of the festivals, workshops and congresses dedicated to photography and visual arts. So far, she has published over three hundred articles in the Refoto Magazine, catalogues of exhibitions, books, and magazines. Ivana has been jurying numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad. She is the representative of Serbia in the “Transeurope” project dedicated to European contemporary photography. Her photographic work is predominantly dedicated to subjective research work through the fields of documentary photography and mise-en-scene.
Miloš Trakilović (Tuzla, Yugoslavia, 1989) is an artist living and working in The Netherlands and Berlin. He holds a MFA from the University of Arts in Berlin where he graduated in the Experimental Film and New Media department. His practice centers around the politics of perception and is often informed by a personal history stemming from the experience of war exploring issues of dissolution, fragmentation and memory. His most recent work examines the role of vision in the construction of meaning and production of power following the digital turnover. His practice employs a strong research element and his work is most often situated within digital media taking on the form of moving image, video installations as well as texts and lectures.
Čedomir Vasić (Belgrade, Sebia, 1948) He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he also obtained a master’s degree in 1973. As a holder of the Fulbright Programme scholarship, he spent the 1975/76 academic year at the University of California in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles studying video and computer arts. He has been exhibiting since 1969. He organized a large number of solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in the country and abroad. He taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Together with Vladan Radovanović, he introduced Interdisciplinary Art Studies to the University of Art where he worked as a professor for multi-media art. He was the Rector of the University of Art in Belgrade (2004-2009). For his artistic and educational work he received many prestigious awards and recognitions. He lives and works in Belgrade.
Júlia Végh (Budapest, Hungary, 1990) Graduated from the Painting Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) in 2016. She also studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain. Art prizes Végh has won include ‘The Universal Sea – Pure or Plastic?‘ Art Prize (2018), initiated by the Institute for Art and Innovation (Berlin, Germany); the ESSL Art Award CEE (2015); and she was also awarded the Art Prize of the Barcsay Jenő Foundation of Fine Art (2014) and the prestigious scholarship of the Barcsay Award (2012). Group exhibitions include those organized by ESSL Museum (Klosterneuburg), Rochester Contemporary Art Center (New York), Whiteconcept Gallery (Berlin), Brody Studios (London) and Art Market Budapest (Budapest). Júlia lives and works in Budapest.
Mariam Zakarian (the mountains of Armenia, 1987) She is a Danish-Armenian multidisciplinary artist based in Copenhagen. Her work includes classical, traditional art, new media art using cutting edge digital technology, as well as performances and installations. Mariam is one of the first independent artists to create large, immersive virtual reality applications in room-scale, uniting visuals, music and interaction in alternate worlds, which one may enter physically. Her project Amaryllis VR, which deals with uniquely human concepts such as mortality, physicality and spirituality through the technologies of the future, has been exhibited at major tech and fine art events on 3 continents. Mariam holds an M.Sc. in Media Technology, specializing in VR, and has worked with the medium since 2014. She creates her VR art pieces solo from start to finish. Besides working actively with the medium, she speaks about VR, fine art and the importance of considering the human aspects when creating the technology of the future.
Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1971) Graduated and postgraduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad at the Painting Department. Since 2000 she has worked at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad at the Department of Fine Arts, currently as a Professor. Member of ULUV (Association of Fine Arts in Vojvodina) and ULUS (The Serbian Association of Fine Arts) since year 1995. Also, she is a member of art group Multiflex where collaborates with other artists on multimedia artistic projects. From 1992 she has participated in over 120 group exhibitions in the region and abroad: Serbia, Poland, Italy, China, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria… Nominated by numerous fine arts critics in different national selections of artists within contemporary art scene. She has had 20 solo exhibitions and received several awards for art work. She coordinated many projects in the field of art and education. Engaged in research of traditional and new visual media, their parallels and overlapping. Relation of the internal and the external space is a field where she explores the possibilities of expression, abstraction, through different mediums and disciplines (art, ecology, urbanism, visual culture…).
Jia Shanguo Master degree of Central Academy of Fine Arts, member of Chinese Artists Association, member of Experimental Art Committee of Shandong Province Artists Association
Li Jie Teacher of Guizhou University, member of Chinese Artists Association.
Li Shun Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1988, graduated from School of Intermedia Art of China Academy of Art, now works and lives in Hangzhou.
Liu Ke Director of Oil Painting Dept. and deputy dean of Painting Art School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Liu Zhaowu Professor and doctoral supervisor, dean of Art College of Jilin Art University.
Su Xing Member of Lacquer Painting Art Committee of Chinese Artists Association, member of Chinese Artists Association, member of council of Guangdong Province Artists Association, deputy chairman of Guangzhou City Artists Association, director of Lacquer Painting Art Committee of Guangdong Province Artists Association.
TAMEN + (Lai Sheng and Yang Xiagang) The group was founded in 2004, which has become one of the most experimental art groups of Chinese contemporary artists. LAI Sheng and YANG Xiaogang are teaching at School of New Media Art and Design of Beihang University.
Tian Wei Born in 1973, teacher of Mixed Media Research Class at Central Academy of Fine Arts. Now works and lives in Beijing.
Wang Changming Chinese contemporary artist. Born in Wuxi city, Jiangsu Province in 1964. Graduated from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Artist of the Open University of China.
WU Shoufeng Director of Art Museum (Yanjiao) of Central Academy of Fine Arts
Wu Xiaohai Born in 1972, graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts with Master Degree, teaching at Mural Painting Dept. of Central Academy of Fine Arts
Zeng Xi Director of Basic Section of Oil Painting Dept., Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Zhang Chun Party chief of the Communist Party of China of Renmin University of China School of Arts, director of Center for Arts Education, professor and doctoral supervisor
Zhao Siqing Graduated from Print Dept. of Academy of Arts&Design, Tsinghua University
Danube Dialogues 2018
Balanescu, Aura (Braila, Romania, 1969). As a graduate of BA/MA (2003) Sculpture Department and PhD studies (2010) in Visual Arts at Fine Arts Faculty, West University of Timișoara, she is known for her theoretical and practical explorations on media sculpture, from the stereoscopic representation to the interactive and immersive digital installation. She attended International Conferences such as Stereo & Immersive Media, Lusofona University of Humanities and Technology Lisbon (2018), Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Re:Trace Krems / Gottweig / Vienna (2017) and Re:Make Riga (2013). Also, she participated in numerous exhibitions, residences and festivals in Romania (Elektro Arts Cluj, 2018) and abroad (Vienna, Paris, London). In 2014, she co-founded Avantpost, a collaborative and transdisciplinary platform for manifesting and archiving local artists that work at the border of art, science and technology.
Bavčević, Gildo (Split, Croatia, 1979). He got his master degree (2013) at the Department for Film and Media Art at the Academy of Arts in Split. He is a multimedia artist, author of performances, video performances, video installations, short films, sound design. In addition to four individual exhibitions he participated at numerous group exhibitions and festivals in the country and abroad such as Red Eu and Kunsthof Jena (Germany) Coexistence For A New Adriatic Koine, arTVision, Pino Pascali Foundation, 24th Soral Ose Art (Geneva), Mediterranean 16th Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean (Ancona), Video Dumbo Experimental Film Festival (New York) and many other. He was the finalist at the Radoslav Putar Prize competition, winner of the award at the 39th Split Salon for video Performance titled The Plastic Man Machine and first prize at the 46th Review of Croatian Film Creative Work for a documentary film titled Solidarity Network. Glido works as an assistant at the Academy of Arts in Split. He is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association and Croatian Association of Fine Artists of Split.
Bićanić, Danica (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1985). She acquired the masters degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad – Sculpture Department, in 2010. She is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Vojvodina. Since 2006, she has seven solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions, as well as several performances in Serbia and abroad (Romania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, United Kingdom, SAD, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece). She was granted the Award for Most Successful Graduate Work at the Sculpture Department (2008), Art Clinics Award “Perspective” for perspective student in category Sculpture (2008), University of Novi Sad Award for excellent results achieved in the field of arts (2009). Currently she is student in the PhD program in fine arts at the Academy of Arts Novi Sad.
Blagojev, Mirjana (Zrenjanin, Serbia, 1974).
She completed her bachelor and master studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department for Sculpture (2007) and also at Ecole Supèrieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, France, in the Object-Glass Department (2005). Currently attending PhD studies at the Academy of Arts Novi Sad, where she is employed in the subject of sculpture as a docent. She is a member of SULUV and ESGAA (European Studio Glass Art Association). She participated in the realization of numerous international projects as well as at numerous art symposia and colonies, exhibited at several solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad, realized study visits in the form of lectures and workshops at the Universities of Pecs (Hungary), Faculty of Architecture Prague (Czech Republic), Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava (Slovakia), Art Academy, Split (Croatia).
Chekachkov, Igor (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1989).
Started as a photojournalist in 2008, he covered a wide range of cultural, mass and sports events. Since 2013 author has engaged with art photography which he still explores. The boundaries between public and intimate spaces are his main focus today. His work has been published in Forbes, National Geographic, The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France), Wirtschafts Wochesince (Germany), Forbes (Ukraine) and others. He also continues to exhibit his prints internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including work in the La Quitreme Image, Paris (2014), Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris (2015), Ukrainian Museum, New York (2015), Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2015), Odessa // Batumi festival (2017) and many others. Member of UPHA (Ukrainian Photographic Alternative) and National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine.
Despotovski, Goran (Vršac, Serbia, 1972).
Graduated and acquired his master degree in painting at the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad where he currently works. He has exhibited at fifty five solo and at several collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, such as: Prigušena Egzistencija (Muted Existence), Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska (2015); Košice, Slovakia (2015) and Taichung, Taiwan (2014); Premonition/Blood/Hope, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria (2014); Identities Association for History, Co-operation and Reconciliation, Golubić, Croatia (2014); There will be no miracles here, Facing Belgrade – ein Einblick in die zeitgenössischen Kunstszene Serbiens, Karlsruhe, Germany (2013); Real life presence, MSUV organisation and Landesmuseum Joanneum – Kunstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria (2009). He has been awarded a multitude of awards. Goran is the author of the project titled Razlike, Slika i Knjiga (Difference, Image and Book) of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He is the President of the Association of Visual Artists of Vojvodina (since 2017). The title of PhD in arts – Visual Arts (2018) he acquired at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
Dukić, Davor (Karlovac, Croatia 1979). He graduated in 2002 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Sculpture department. The same year he attended European Summer School, Faculty of Arts of March Bloch, University and Apollonia in Strasbourg. He got MFA and PhD from Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade. He won numerous prizes: Award of the XI Biennial of Yugoslav Student Drawing, Belgrade (2001); “Perspectives XXIX” award, Belgrade (2002); Award for sculptural proposal for the entrance of Faculty of Drama Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (2004); Award of 38. Herceg Novi Winter Salon, Herceg Novi, Montenegro (2005); Sculpture acquired by the City of Belgrade at the Competition for Museum of Belgrade art collection (2006); First prize at the Public competition for monument dedicated to Miloš Obrenović in Požega, Serbia (2014); First prize for public competition for bas-relief portrait of Miodrag B. Protic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2015); Gallery and Audience of the 29th Memorial of Nadežda Petrović (2018).Artworks in public and private collections: Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton collection, Treviso; Collection of Belgrade Polytechnic; City Museum of Belgrade; Museum of Mining and Metallurgy Bor. Sculptures in public places: Monument of Bob Marley, Banatski Sokolac (2008); The bust of Louis Barthou, the French Embassy in Belgrade (2009); The bust of Đorđe Predin Badža, Bečej (2013); Monument of knez Miloš Obrenović, Požega (2015); The bust of Borislav Pekić, Beograd (2015); The monument to fallen members of the MUP, Novi Beograd (2018). He had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad.
Dulić, Spartak (Subotica, Serbia, 1970).
Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Zagreb at the Graphic Department (1998). He worked on restoration at the Croatian Restoration Institute in Zagreb, and later in education as a teacher and professor of professional courses in visual arts and applied arts in Osijek and Subotica. Since 2007, he has been the director and curator of the “Dr. Vinko Perčić” Gallery in Subotica. He has exhibited at a number of individual exhibitions in Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, and along with painting he includes performances and installations in the artistic practice.
Fiodorova, Tatiana (Chisinau, Republica Moldova). Moldavian artist, curator and educator working with current political and social themes, often evaluated in contextual relation to the history of the Soviet Union. This results in works of installation, live performance, public art, video and artists’ books. Fiodorova’s work has been shown at Biennial of contemporary photography and moving image, Iasi, Romania (2016), The Delhi Photo Festival (2015), Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011, 2015), Torino PERFORMANCEART (2013), “Atlantis 11” at the Venice Biennale (2011), Kunst- und Kulturfestival, Berlin (2011), and Periferic Biennial 8, Romania (2008).
Grlić, Martina (Zagreb, Croatia, 1982).
She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2010, she has participated actively at Croatian art scene and exhibited at eleven individual and several group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Spain, France, Slovenia, China, Poland. etc.). Martina was awarded the Erste Bank First Prize for a young artist, New Fragments 8. (2012) and the Prize of Hrvatska Poštanska Banka for a young artist at the 4th Biennial of Painting in Zagreb (2017). She participated in the Glo’art residential programme in Belgium (2014). Martina is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU) and Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU).
Kojić, Stevan (Kikinda, Serbia, 1973).
He completed his BA (1997) and MA (1999) at department od Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He is a professor of New Media Department at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. Artistic field of Stevan Kojić lies at the intersection of science, art and technology. He usually implements his interdisciplinary research thought spatial installation, digital animation and photography. His is winner of prize “Ilija Kolarević”, FLU, Belgrade (2000); prize at V International Biennale of Young Artists “Time Codes”, Center for Contemporary Culture “Konkordija”, Vršac 2002.; 2 META Foundation, Biennale for Visual Art, Pančevo – Bucuresti, 2002; XXI Salon of Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo, 2003; Great prize at 39th salon of Novi Sad, at the Gallery of Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2010.
Macura, Nikola (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1978).
He is a graduate and master of arts at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he is currently employed at the Department of Sculpture, as assistant professor. He has exhibited at several collective and solo exhibitions in the country and abroad. He organized several art actions exploring the potential of sculpture in communication with the environment, positioned in a particular social context. Since 2000 he has participated in several activities of LED ART, and from 2002 to 2012 he is active in the work of the Art Clinic. He has led numerous workshops (My Superhero, Sculptures and installations in Novi Sad, STREET ART…). He is currently engaged in organizing and conducting studies for sound installations.
drMáriás (Béla Máriás) (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1966). Painter and visual artist, novelist and musician, frontman of the Tudósok band. Studied at the University of Art in Belgrade. In 1991 moved to Hungary from Yugoslavia where he resides since. His multi-disciplinal art can be featured as having strong and critical attitude that deals with existential questions deriving from East-European identity, historic and political context. His artistic language implements elements of avantgarde, dadaism, pop art, soc art and surrealist attitude. He defines his artistic activity as social surgery. Leader, singer, saxophone and trumpet player of the Tudósok band (The Scientists) that gave more hundreds of concerts from Russia through Europe to the United States. Had solo exhibitions in Budapest, London, Belgrade, Vienna, Ljubljana, Peking, Prague and New York. His prose has been published in Hungary and China.
Mercioiu Popa, Liliana (Târgu-Jiu, Romania, 1975). Lives and works in Timişoara (Romania). Graduated in 1998 from the Faculty of Arts and Design, Painting Department. in Timişoara. Since 1999 she teaches painting at the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timişoara. In 2008 got PhD degree in Visual Arts, with paper “Poetic Arts in 20th-century Fine Art”. Organizes art events with students in dedicated, alternative or public spaces. Interferes with artistic groups of Timişoara: In-Format (in 2001) and Avantpost (since 2015). Her works were seen in solo exhibitions such as: “Medial Space”, Bucharest (Romania), 2016; “Variable Geometry”, Timisoara, 2014 or “About Fluidity”, Novi Sad (Serbia), 2013 or in collective ones – “Universallowed”, Timişoara (Romania), 2017; “Hidden Agenda”, Bucharest, (Romania), 2016; “What about you?”/”The Connection with the Present”, Art Encounters Biennial, Timişoara (Romania); “Possible-Unsure”, Timişoara (Romania), 2011, “In the Light of Utopia”, London (United Kingdom), 2010; “7 Terraces Open to the World”, Essen (Germany), 2009.
Mijatović, Kata (Branjina, Croatia, 1956).
Multimedia artist. She was a member of the informal art group Močvara/Baranja (1988-1991), as well as of the artistic council of the Baranja Art Colony /BUK/ (2005-2010). She studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, and later continued her studies at the Academy of Visual Arts (ALU) in Zagreb where she graduated (1997). Since 2005 he has been running the AŽ Atelier Žitnjak Gallery in Zagreb, and since 2007 she has been a member of the PLEH art group. She participated at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) as a representative of Croatia with the project Between the Heaven and the Earth /curator Branko Franceschi/. Kata lives and works in Zagreb as an independent artist.
Pavelić, Zoran (Osijek, Croatia, 1961).
Multimedia artist. He is the founder of the informal art group Močvara-Baranja (1988-1991). He graduated painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in Zagreb (1998). He has been exhibiting since 1984. Zoran was a member of the BUK Art Council (2005-2010), the Atelier Žitnjak artistic organisation (since 2005), Council of the PM Gallery of Extended Arts, and President and member of the PLEH artistic organisation (2000-2007). He won the competition for the artistic memorial intervention “Osunčana mesta” Memorial Park, Virtual Museum Dotrščina, Zagreb (2017). The basic features of the artistic creative work of Zoran Pavelić are the tendency of conceptual integration of certain segments of one’s own artistic work, as well as the problematization of the role of an artist, art and art institutions in the socio-political context of time and space. He lives and works in Zagreb as an independent artist.
Perkov, Vedran (Split, Croatia, 1972).
In 2002 he graduated painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He has been exhibiting since 1999 and he has participated at more than 60 group and 20 individual exhibitions in the country and abroad. Vedran has also participated at workshops and Artist-in-Residence programmes in Croatia, Italy, Sweden, Latvia, Algeria, France, Canada and USA. He was awarded Radoslav Putar Prize, great Split Salon Prize (2007) and the Third Prize at the HT – Croatian Contemporary Art Prize exhibition (2018). He initiated and conducted many art projects. His works can be found in the Art Gallery in Split and Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria in Pula while his sculpture Golf Emperor was set at Zlarin. Vedran works as an assistant professor at the Fine Arts Department of the Academy of Art in Split.
Skaličan, Ján (Bratislava, Slovakia, 1989). He got BA (2016) and MA (2018) degree in Photography and New Media at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. Got First prize in the Slovak Press Photo in the category Students and young photographers up to 25 years (2014). He is a co-founder and member of dsk. (art group with Ľuboš Kotlár, Iva Durkáčová) and co-founder, organizer and curator of Žumpa Gallery in Bratislava. He was presenting his work at exhibitions in Slovakia and other countries.
Schmidt, Wolfgang (Witten, Ruhr, Germany, 1966). Studied Object Design at FH Dortmund (diploma with Werner Nöfer & Pit Moog) focusing on art in public space and art in building. Since than the main topic of all his following works is serial processing of a figure. He participates in national and international individual and group exhibitions since 1995. He was first art assistant to Prof. HD Schrader, Hamburg, international exhibitions and competitions (1992–2000). Worked as curator, artistic director for Kunstbox, national biennial artist fair in Dortmund (2009–15). He was nominated for several art prizes: Ennepe-Ruhr (2015), Dortmunder Grafik (2002), scholarship for drawing, Iserlohn (2003) and other.
Stefanovič Trijaška, Olja (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1978). She got PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the Department of Photography and New Media in Bratislava, Slovakia (2007). Teaches at the Department of Photography and New Media at the same academy. Finalist of Award 333 organised by National gallery in Prague, CZ (2010) and a photographer of the year in Slovakia in 2015. Awarded for project “New Bratislava” by special Bratislava grant and prize by the Mayor of Bratislava, within the Slovak Press Photo award (2017). She was presenting her work at many group and solo exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad. Her works are part of collection of city gallery in Nitra, Nitrianská gáleria.
Škulec, Rastislav (Lug, Serbia, 1962).
He has finished painting (1989) at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (class of professor Jovan Rakidžić). He is one of the founders of Novi Sad’s social organization Yellow House (1988). Together with Zoran Pantelic, he founded an art group “Absolutely Sculptural” (1990), which later became an “Association Absolutely” with which he worked until 1996. He then founded the pseudo-group “Absolute Fraction” (1996-2000) and worked on projects of conceptual character whose realization is not related to exhibiting spaces and galleries. He is still intensively engaged in sculpture, painting and drawing, and returned to the art scene in 2000 with a solo exhibition of sculptures in the gallery “Zlatno oko”. He participated in numerous art colonies, the most important of which are the Symposium Terra in Kikinda (1993). In Vršac, he participated in the art colony “Art Encounters – Trail of Paje Jovanović”, where he created a sculpture for the public space (2005). He also created a large sculpture for the public space in Apatin (2008).
Thuma, Gerlinde (Vienna, Austria, 1962).
Studied painting and film animation in Maria Lassnig’s master class at the University of Applied Art in Vienna. The principle of developing a continual temporal progression using a drawing that becomes a moving image in an animated film is something that Thuma has continued to develop in her double paintings. While film lets the images proceed one after the other, painting stops the passage of time. The before and after immanent in time is conserved in the process of painting and in the application of many glazed layers of color over one another, and also in charcoal drawing, a medium whose developmental process presupposes temporality.
Velciov, Nicolae (Timișoara, Romania, 1968). Graduated (2013) and got MA degree (2015) from Painting Department at Fine Arts Faculty, West University Timișoara. His work deals with the combination of artistic genres by switching from painting to the art object, video installation and land art. He has participated in various exhibitions (Universallowed, Timișoara, 2017), land art symposiums (AData Camp, Plovdiv, 2018, Rusenski Lom Natural Park. Nisovo, 2016, Process Space Art Festival, Ruse, 2016) and artistic residencies (Cetate Art Danube, 418 Gallery, 2018, Entities at the Crossroads Artforum, Bahnhof Langmeil, 2015, Maudite soit la guerre, Méricourt, 2013), manifesting his experience from Romania to abroad (Austria, Bulgaria, Franța, Germania). He co-founded the Avantpost platform in 2014.
Vujanović, Miloš (Podgorica, Montenegro, 1965). Graduated (1991) and got a Master’s degree (2000) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad. He experimented in various disciplines of visual arts. He founded art group Art Circus in 1995 and worked with it until 2001, after which he continued his independent artistic activity. He has collaborated with art groups Led Art, Croporaton, Urban District 16_11. He started exhibiting in 1989, and since then he has had one hundred collective and individual exhibitions in the country and abroad. He won several awards for his art work, illustrations, and pedagogical work. He is a member of the Association of Artists in Serbia (ULUS) and Union of the Associations of Artists in Vojvodina (SULUV). Works as full professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and part time professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. He published a collection of short stories titled Ignorance (1996). He has made several short films, video works and animations. From 2010. he is interested in relationship between art and science.
Valchev, Alexander (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1973). He has finished master studies of Sculpture (1998) at National Academy of Arts and master studies of Photography (2013) at New Bulgarian University, both in Sofia. He has won several art prizes for his work: Born Independent – 100 Years Independent Bulgaria (2009), PHODAR 5th Photographic Biennial Pleven, Bulgaria (2007); UBA’s Award for Young Artist in National Sculpture Exhibition (2000); First Prize for Young Artist in 7th “Fare Arte” in Sardegna, Cagliari, Italia (1995), Artist in Residence Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris (2003) and in CCN Graz (2007). Exhibited his work in many solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Romania. Lives and works in Sofia.
Utenkov, Andrey (Ukraine, 1987). Freelance artist, organizer of contemporary art exhibitions, creator of concepts. Organizer and participant of performances and performance workshops with teachers from Europe in Ukraine. Worked as dolphin therapist and clinical psychologist in dolphinarium “Nemo”, Odessa and as dolphin therapist for children with special needs (2012-2018). Since 2014 he is a leader and teacher in Playback Theatre “Kak Doma”, ”OS”. The same year he also became participant of performance-project Singul.AR (augmented reality).
Danube Dialogues 2017
Robert Jankuloski, MP Art, Paula Muhr, Dario Belić, Kolektiva, Borut Krajnc, Venelin Shurelov, Sava Stepanov, Dejan Sluga, Márta Szilágyi, Katarína Bajcurová, Kristina Olteanu, Laslo Vegel, G.R.A.M., Eva Petrič, Laurent Ziegler, Martin Stobič, Ibro Hasanović, Ora Hazenfratz, Elena Panayotova, Atanas Totlyakov, Kiril Cholakov, Sergii Radkevych, Mira Brtka, Dragan Stojkov, Milan Jakšić, Dragan Matić, Bosa Zirojević, Andrea Ruttka, Marta Stamenov, Andreas Dworak, Klaus Sinowatz, Larissa Leverenz, Ingrid Gaier, Georg Lebzelter, Gerlinde Thuma, Ute Heinecke, Olga Georgieva, Desislava Unger, Helga Cmelka, Claudia-Maria Luenig, Georg Vinokić, Wolfgang Horwath, Reinhold Egerth, Christine Pirker, Babsi Daum, Jadranka Protić, Viktoria Zidaru, Suzana Dan, Mirea Ciutu, Stefan Ungureanu, Rudolf Sikora, Judith Ganz, Georg Gartz, Aleksandra Lung, Veronika Moss-Brochhagen, Alexander Pohl, Wolfgang Schmit, Roul Schneider, Claudia Terlunen, Đanino Božić, Georg Gartz, Rudolf Sikora, Nenad Šoškić, Ivana Radovanović, Vesko Gagović, Adin Rastoder, Ivan Šuletić, Zvonimir Santrač, Milan Jakšić, Milan Blanuša, Svetlana Mladenov, Nataša Teofilović, Christine Maringer, Norbert Maringer, Marie Anna Stressler, Rudolf Stressler, Ilse Sandmair, Norbert Maierhofer, Stefania Zorzi, Gudrun Seitl, Franz Seitl, Sonia Gansterer, Robert Petschink
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diSTRUKTURA. Group members, Milica Milićević (1979) and Milan Bosnić (1969) graduated from the master’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting. They act as an artist duo since 2005. They express the ideas in various media, mostly in photography, painting, drawing and video. Exhibited in Serbia, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and Finland. Their works are in private, public and corporate collections in Austria, Slovenia and Serbia. Participated in numerous AIR, symposia and workshops in the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Egypt and Finland. They live and work in Belgrade.
Žolt Kovač (1975, Pančevo, Serbia). MA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2002), where he enrolled in the Doctoral art studies in 2010. He attended the School of History and Theory of Painting, Center for Contemporary Art in Belgrade (2000-2002). He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. As the professor in the College of Professional Studies at the Belgrade Polytechnic, he teaches Drawing, Painting, Portfolio and presentations and Multimedia presentations. Co-founder and editor of the online magazine of contemporary art Supervizuelna. He plays bass guitar in an alternative group Jarboli. He lives in Belgrade.
Ivana Ivković (1979, Belgrade, Serbia). She graduated in painting and drawing and holds a MA degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Since 2002, she has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. She was a finalist for Politika’s Award for the most successful exhibition (2007 and 2010). She has received numerous scholarships (Austria, USA, Turkey, Canada, Lebanon, Greece, India, Morocco, Denmark, Germany, Italy). Her works can be found in important collections in Belgrade, New York, Basel, Lisbon and Turkey.
Škart is a collective founded in 1990 at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. While experimenting through their work, they focus primarily between the medium of poetry and design. “Architecture of the human relationships” is their main concept.
Through the constant flux within the collective, present since its very beginning, members collaboratively work to develop new values.They are particularly capable through the process of making, to embrace ‘beautiful’ mistakes and tirelessly strive to combine work with pleasure.
Nela Hasanbegović (1984, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). BA (2007) and MA (2010) sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 2013 she attended doctoral studies of sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Through solo and group exhibitions actively she participates in contemporary foreign and domestic art scene. In her artistic work she uses a variety of media from sculpture and objects to installations, performances and videos. She has won several prestigious awards, honors and scholarships. Since 2012 she has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo as an assistant (Methodology of art education).
Daniel Premec (1976, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). BA (2001) and MA (2008) from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, where he is currently employed as a senior assistant. Since 2012, he attended doctoral studies Arts, Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Actively participates in contemporary foreign and domestic art scene. The works carried out in various media: as sculpture, installation, object, performance or video. He has won a several prestigious awards, honors and scholarships.
Milena Jovićević (1976, Cetinje, Montenegro). She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje (1999), specialized in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France (2000). Moreover, she graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Supériure-Arts in Paris (2004), where she finished postgraduate studies (2005) and holds a MSc degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro (2008). PhD thesis at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia (2012). She participated in numerous symposia and AIR programs. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Since 2004 she has worked at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje. She lives and works in Podgorica.
Radovan Čerevka (1980, Košice, Slovakia). He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts and Multimedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Košice (2006). He studied new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2003-2004). He worked as an assistant professor of audio-visual and multimedia production at the Academy of Arts in Bistrica. He holds a PhD from the Department of Multimedia at the Academy in Bratislava (2011). Since 2009 he has worked as an assistant professor of Free creative 3D at the Academy of Arts in Košice. He has received a large number of scholarships and awards for his work. He has exhibited solo and in group exhibitions in the country and abroad. He lives and works in Košice.
Ulrike Kessl (1962 Rottweil, Germany). BA and MA studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf. She won a scholarship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques (1991). As an assistant and lecturer worked at art Academies in Paris (1992), Dortmund (1996-1998), Bielefeld (1999), Berlin (2003-2004), Münster (2012-2013). She has won scholarships in France, Germany, Texas and Ireland. She presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Her works are in private and public collections.
Michael Endlicher (1960, Vienna, Austria). He graduated in Business Economics. He is a visual artist and a writer. In his multimedia work, he explores the interconnection between picture and language. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is a member of several art associations. He lives and works in Vienna.
Franz Stefan Kohl (1959, Tulln, Austria). For years, he studied music before he devoted himself to the visual arts in the field of geometric abstract painting. Since 2001, he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and his work is represented in numerous private and public collections. He lives and works in Vienna and Bergwerk.
György Olajos (1953, Budapest, Hungary). Graphics specializes in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest (1979-1984). He received numerous grants and awards, including the Munkácsy prize. He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions of graphics, as well as many solo exhibitions. He performed several murals. He works as a professor of graphics at art school Jaschik Álmos in Budapest.
Ana Petrović (1985, Bjelovar, Croatia). She graduated from the Art Academy Osijek (2011). At the same academy she continued to work as an assistant at the Artistic branch of animated film and New media. Co-founder of the artistic organization POPUP which operates since 2012, and which aims to expand awareness of contemporary art exhibiting in alternative venues. She exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. She lives and works in Osijek.
Venelin Shurelov (1977, Bulgaria). Phd of Stage design at the National Academy of Art in Bulgaria (2009). Co-founder and a lecturer at the MA program of Digital arts at the National Academy of Arts and part of curatorial team of DA Fest, International Digital Art Festival in Sofia. He is the founder Subhuman Theatre (2004) and international art group Via Pontica (2002). He is the author of numerous interactive installations/performances. He was a guest lecturer at Towson University in the United States. He has made a large number of sets, solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions and festivals in Europe and the United States. He lives and works in Sofia.
Velimir Žernovski (1981, Skopje, Macedonia). He had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Vienna, Freiburg, Skopje and Belgrade, and group in Slovenia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and the United States. Curator and participant in numerous international projects and exhibitions.
Uroš Weinberger (1975). BA (2003) and MA in painting (2005) from the Academy of Fine Arts Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He continued his studies at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria (2002). He has won several awards for his work and participated in the AIR programs. In addition to painting, occasionally deals with sound and video installations. He is an active member of the Slovenian music group Moveknowledgement. He has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions (Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Italy, South Africa). His works are in private and public collections. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
Lukas Kellner (1984, Pilsen) completed his studies at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2013. He completed there a Master’s degree in Multimedia Studio and since 2013 is an assistant professor. He is orientated on the videoart pieces and combined his ideas with principes of advertising and commercial sphere, in the past years he has created numerous works which were shown in exhibitions and simposiums in Czech Republic and around Europe (Belgium, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The subject of his work is mainly focused on self-portrait, performative parts, human identity and our childhood experiences. It is an integral part of communication between the works and the environment where it is located. Lukas himself says: “For me is a camera like my third eye. Through the camera I find new points of view and almost every time camera provides me a new fact in my work, new horizone. The final approach is usually performance or video, but if there is an interesting connection between those I prefer using both.“
Tatiana Fiodorova (1976, Chisinau, Moldova). As a an artist she is involved with the arts in diverse roles as a visual artist, teacher, curator, and art manager. Fiodorova’s art works include installations, live performances, public art, video and digital media. The content of her works tends to reflect the contemporary world in response to current issues: social, political and aesthetic. Very often she touches upon issues related to the local conflicts and problems of Moldova, such as the integration of Moldova into the European context and the problem of identity for the citizens of Moldova. She lives and works in Chisinau, Moldova.
Danube Dialogues 2014
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Jan Triaška (1977 Novi Sad, Serbia) has graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (1999). Finished PhD studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (2007). He has had many international group and solo exhibitions. Lives and works in Bratislava.
Jozef Klaćik (1949 Stara Pazova, Serbia) has a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Works as professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He is active in the field of painting, graphics, multimedia, film and literature. He has had several international group and solo exhibitions. Lives and works in Novi Sad.
Marek Kvetan (1976 Bratislava, Slovakia) has a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Painting (2001). Received many grants and awards. Participated in AIR programs. He has had many international group and solo exhibitions. Lives and works in Bratislava.
Martin Derner (1973 Košice, Slovakia) has a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Lecturer at the Department of Printmaking Faculty of Fine Arts, Banská Bystrica. His work is related to direct intervention on different supports, with mixed media. He has participated in many group and solo exhibitions, symposiums. Lives and works in Bratislava.
Mira Brtka (1930 Novi Banovci – 2014 Zemun, Serbia). Graduated from the Film Academy in Belgrade, Serbia (1953) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in Rome, Italy (1963). She was a movie director, sculptor, fashion designer and painter. Member of the art group Illumination. She had participated in many international group and solo exhibitions.
Olja Triaška Stefanović (1978 Novi Sad, Serbia). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the Department of Photography and New Media in Bratislava (2001). Works at the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. She was presenting her work at many group and solo exhibitions internationally. Lives and works in Bratislava.
Rastislav Škulec (1962 Lug, Serbia). Graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Painting (1989). He is active in the field of sculpture and painting. Works as a lecturer. He has had several international group and solo exhibitions. Lives and works in Begeč.
Viktor Frešo (1974 Bratislava, Slovakia). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic (2005). He has had many group and solo exhibitions internationally. Received several awards. Lives and works in Czech Republic.
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Tadej Pogačar (1960, Ljubljana, Slovenia). Lives and works in Ljubljana and was a graduate and postgraduate (1990) at the Academy of Fine Arts of Ljubljana University. He is a director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. Pogačar has had many solo and group exhibitions worldwide and his works are in private and public collections.
Pravdoliub Ivanov (1964, Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Lives and works in Sofia, where he graduated from the National Academy for Fine Arts in 1993. Assistant Professor at the Academy since 1996 and member of the Institute of Contemporary Art since 1995. He has had many individual and group international exhibitions of his work and participated in several AIR programs.
Pavel Braila (1971, Chisinau, Moldova). Lives and works in Germany (Berlin), and Chisinau. He has shown films, videos, and performances at numerous international art exhibitions and film festivals, won many awards and scholarships and taken part in AIR programs.
Mladen Miljanović (1981, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Lives and works in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he is enrolled at the Academy of Arts (BA – MA course in painting). He has held many group and solo international exhibitions, is a recipient of numerous awards and his works are in public and private collections.
Magdalena Jetelova (1946, Semily, Czechoslovakia). Lives and works in Germany (Munich, Dusseldorf) and the Czech Republic (Prague). Graduating in 1971 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, she studied in Italy at the Accademia di Brera, Milan, (1968) and now teaches at several European art academies. She has had many group and individual international exhibitions and received several awards and scholarships. Her works are to be found in private and public collections.
Lazar Pejović (1969, Cetinje, Montenegro). Lives and works in Cetinje, where he graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Montenegro. Postgraduate studies in Applied Arts and Design in Belgrade, Serbia. He is currently Photography Professor at the Fine Arts Department, Cetinje. Many international exhibitions, both individual and group.
Julian Palacz (1983, Leoben, Steiermark, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna and Murzzuschlag, Austria. He studied Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He had many solo and group international exhibitions. Palacz participated in numerous international festivals and received several awards and scholarships.
Ivan Bazak (1980, Kolomyja, Ukraine). Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Kiev, Ukraine. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts (2006), master studies in Dusseldorf and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev (2003). Bazak has won many awards and held numerous group and solo exhibitions. His works are in private and public collections.
Igor Grubić (1969, Zagreb, Croatia). Lives and works in Zagreb. Graduated in editing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb. Took courses in gestalt and transactional analysis, graduating from the Jesuit University of Philosophy in Zagreb. Grubić has had many group and solo international exhibitions and received several awards.
Herbert Stolz (1960, Mitterfels, Germany). Lives and works in Regensburg, Germany. Graduated from University in Regensburg in 1983. Lecturer in architectural photography at the Regensburg University of applied sciences from 2011- 2012. Stolz had held several individual and group exhibitions of his works, which are to be found in public and private collections.
Csakany Istvan (1978, Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania). Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. Graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (2006). He has had many solo and group international exhibitions and participated in AIR programs. His works are in public collections.
Biljana Đurđević (1973, Belgrade, Serbia). Lives and works in Belgrade. Postgraduate studies in Fine Arts, Belgrade (2000). She has had many group and solo international exhibitions and received numerous awards and scholarships.
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkačova have been collaborating since 2000. They live and work in Berlin, the Czech Republic and Prague.
Anetta Mona Chisa (1975, Nadlac, Romania), Lucia Tkačova (1977, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia) both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, and have been working together since 2001, exhibiting internationally in many group and solo exhibitions. They have won several awards and taken part in many AIR programs.
Andrea Palašti (1984). Lives in Novi Sad, Serbia. BFA and MFA in Photography, University of Novi Sad, Academy of Art (2009). PhD in Art and Media Theory, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. She has had many group and solo international exhibitions and participated in AIR programs. Received numerous awards and scholarships.
Alexandra Croitoru (1975, Bucharest, Romania). Living and working in Bucharest, Romania, she graduated from the Graphic Department of the Bucharest Arts Academy in 1998 and is Assistant Professor in the Photo-Video Department of the University of Arts in Bucharest, where she received a PhD in Artistic Research (2012). She has participated in many international solo and group exhibitions and been awarded several scholarships for AIR programs.
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Sandra Zarth (1970, Cologne, Germany) has been a member of the Bundesverbandes Bildender Künstler (BBK), Cologne, since 2003. In 2004, she was granted a residency scholarship at the Otmar Alt Foundation, Hamm. She has had many solo exhibitions of her artwork, installations and performances. She has also participated in many international group and solo exhibitions.
Claus Dieter Geissler (1952, Rinteln a. d. Weser, Germany), lives in Cologne where he has worked as a photographer for over 40 years. Examination for the grade of master photographer (1980). Received many scholarships and has had numerous exhibitions.
Christian Eder (1964, Bregenz, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna and Bregenz. A graduate from the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna (1998), he has had many international solo and group exhibitions and his works are to be found in public and private collections.
Eric Kressnig (1973, Klagenfurt, Austria). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2001). He participated in AIR programs, received several scholarships and has held many international group and solo exhibitions.
Florentina Pakosta (1933, Vienna, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna . Studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and completed her studies in Paris, Prague and Amsterdam. Received several awards and prizes for her artwork. Member of the Vienna Secession since 1971, Pakosta is also active as a writer. Participated in many exhibitions.
Franz Riedl (1976, Bad Ischl, Austria). Graduated from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; master class for sculpture, Ortweinschule, Graz. Received many scholarships. Lectureship at the Technical University of Vienna, Institute for Three Dimensional Design (2007).
Fritz Ruprechter (1950, Matrei, Austria). Lives and works in Maria Lanzendorf near Vienna. He studied painting at the Applied Arts Department of Vienna University, the Academy Minerva in Groningen, Netherlands and spent six months at the Academy of Art in Cork, Ireland. Many group and solo exhibitions
Hermann J. Painitz (1938, Vienna, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna. Trained as a gold- and silversmith. Finished studies in Bern, London and at the University of Vienna, department for History of Art. Taught at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts. President of the Vienna Secession (1977–1983).
János Megyik (1938, Szolnok, Hungary). Studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Andersen and Dobrowsky (1960). He has received many awards for his artwork and been awarded several scholarships. Numerous group and solo exhibitions.
Robert Gschwantner (1968, Steyr, Austria). Lives and works in Berlin and Rome. Trained as a technical draftsman and set designer. Self-employed artist since 1994.
Rudolf Sikora (1946, Žilina, Slovakia), lives in Bratislava. He has been one of the most original figures of Slovak visual art since the early 1970s. Sikora studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1969), where he later worked as professor (1990 – 2004), and continued teaching at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University of Košice until 2011. He has had many international solo and group exhibitions. His works are in public collections and museums.
Bukta Imre (1952, Mezoszemere, Hungary). From 1976 -1977 was a member of the Szentendre Vajda Lajos Studio, the most influential alternative group of the period. His first Budapest show in 1978 brought instant recognition and success and he emerged as a bright new star in the Budapest art firmament.
Alen Floričić (1968, Pula, Croatia). Lives and works in Rabac in atmospheric and installation art. He began his art career after graduating from sculpture school in Rijeka in 1993. In the 1990s, he worked on individual paintings and sculptures. More recently, he has worked on urban installations, atmospheric art and art videos.
Davor Sanvincenti (1979, Kopar, Slovenia ) is an international multimedia artist from Croatia. Masterclass with Steina & Woody Vasulka – Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2013). Has participated in many AIR programs. His work has been exhibited and presented internationally, including festivals. Has received many awards and grants and lectured, given talks and taken part in panels at international Universities. His works are in public collections and museums.
Đorđe Jandrić (1956, Zadar, Croatia). Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from the Art Academy and Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Lectured at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka. He has had many international solo and group exhibitions.
Iva Gobić (1973, Rijeka, Croatia). Lives and works in Istra and Rijeka, Croatia. MA in book restoration, Art Academy in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2011). She has had many international solo and group exhibitions.
Ivan Posavec (1951, Dužica, Croatia). Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and received an MA in photography from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. He is the recipient of many awards for his artwork.
Matija Debeljuh (1980, Pula, Croatia). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Split, in Design of Visual Communications (2004), Video Art. With several national and international workshops to his credit, his experimental films and video works have been screened at international festivals where they won significant awards. Matija also likes experimenting in photography.
Sebastijan Dračić (1980 Zagreb, Croatia). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2006. So far, he has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad, and taken part in a residential program in Vienna. He is the winner of several awards and is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists.
ŠIKUTI MACHINE (Andi Bančić, Denis i Elvis Lenić, Mauro Macan, Darko Pekica i Neven Peršić). This group of artists has been collaborating since 2000 in Svetvinčenat, Istra. They organize art exhibitions, performances, concerts, make films, give lectures etc.
Zlatan Vehabović (1982, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Graduated from the Art Academy in Zagreb, Croatia, Department of Painting (2006). Vehabović has exhibited at several solo and group exhibitions, and his works are part of art collections in Croatia and abroad. He has received many awards for his artwork. He lives and works in Zagreb.
Andrea Ivanović Jaksić (1979, Slavonski Brod, Croatia). Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2005. She has presented at solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad. Her works can be found in private collections.
Radoš Antonijević (1969, Serbia) is a visual artist and educator. He received a master’s degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he is currently assistant professor while finishing a PhD project. Member and co-founder of the Free Artistic Association “Third Belgrade”.
Vesna Perunović (1960) lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She holds a B.F.A. (1984) and an M.F.A. (1987) from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She has shown at several gallery and museum exhibitions. A Toronto-based visual artist, she works in a variety of media, ranging from sculpture and painting to video installation and performance.
Veljko Vujačić (1969, Belgrade, Serbia), graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in 1994. He has participated in many international group exhibitions in addition to several solo exhibitions.
Slobodan Knežević Abi (1948, Bačko Dobro Polje, Serbia). Lives in Novi Sad, Serbia. Graduated in Fine Arts from Belgrade University in 1977, receiving an MA in print making in 1979. He has had many international group and solo exhibitions and is a professor at the Art Academy in Novi Sad.
MP_art is the acronym of two artists, Maja Budzarov and Predrag Sidjanin, who regard their joint work as more important than compiling artistic biographies – ‘Art consists of art alone, not artists’. They have been living and working together since January 2003 and focus on exploring their mutual emotions and intimacy through an art that is primarily physical (performance) and meditative (painting/text/color). Their work makes equal use of their bodies, photography, text, video, the Internet and occasional combinations of new media with different standard materials (paintings, ceramics and glass).
Dragan Vojvodić (1965 Kula, Serbia), graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992) and the Art Academy, Novi Sad, Serbia (1995). He has had several international solo and group exhibitions and is the recipient of numerous awards, scholarships and grants. Has also participated in AIR programmes and given many presentations, lectures and workshops.
Dan Palade (1954 Oneşti, Romania). Lives and works in Romania. He holds an academic degree in painting and has had many international solo and group exhibitions. He participated in symposiums and his artworks are in many museums.
Atanas Atanassov (1964, Bourgas , Bulgaria ). Graduated in painting from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1997. He has had many individual and collective exhibitions and received several awards for his artwork.
Atanas Gadjev (1960, Belovo, Bulgaria) is a graduate of the National Academy of Art, Sofia, receiving an MFA in Ceramics in 1987. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1991, and a co-founder of the Lingua Franca association. He has had many solo exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad. He participates in dozens of international projects and AIR programs.
Delia Chausheva (1965, Sofia, Bulgaria). Studied at the Jan Matejko Fine Arts Academy in Kracow, Poland, graduating in painting (1993). A member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, she has held many solo international exhibitions.
Elena Panayotova (1964, Sofia, Bulgaria). Lives and works in Sofia. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia and received an M.A. in painting (1989). She has taken part in many solo and group exhibitions and projects.
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Andreas Dwořak (1957, Vienna, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna. He has participated in many group and solo exhibitions and projects and was awarded several grants. He worked as a curator.
Cornelia König (1963, Baden, Austria). Lives and works in Baden, Austria. Graduated from University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. MA in Arts and Cultural Management (2010) and Technical College of Glass, Tyrol, Austria – apprentices’ final examination / mastership (1987). Participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide.
Georg Lebzelter (1966, Melk, Austria). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (1990), studied at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain (1993). Since 1990 he has had several teaching assignments at schools and universities of art and graphic design. Received several awards for his artwork and has held many solo and group exhibitions.
Gerlinde Thuma (1962, Vienna, Austria). Works in painting, sculpture, film animation and stage design. Graduated from University of Applied Arts, Vienna, (Maria Lassnig), study of painting and film animation (1988). Has held many exhibitions as well as participating in group exhibitions and AIR programs.
Kirsten Borchert (1986, Oberhausen, Germany). Graduated in graphics and printmaking from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, (2013). She received many awards for her artwork and has taken part in many international group and solo exhibitions.
Kurt Spittaler (1966, Bruck/Mur, Austria). Lives and works in Kottingbrunn. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts with Bruno Gironcoli (1999 diploma with distinction). He has held many exhibitions and his artworks are to be found in private collections.
Martina Funder (1953, Vienna, Austria). Freelancing in Baden. Graduated in the study of oil painting from Academy of Fine Art, Vienna (1978). She has held many exhibitions in Austria and abroad since 1975 and has received several awards.
Michael Wegerer (1970, Wiener Neustadt, Austria). Lives and works as an artist in Vienna and Lower Austria. Graduated with honors in visual and media art (2008) from the University of Applied Art, Vienna. Master studies in fine art practice at the Royal College of Art in London. Received many awards and is a guest lecturer at many international universities. Participated in AIR programs and has had numerous group and solo exhibitions.
Petra Buchegger (1970, Graz, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna. Graduated from the Art Academy in Vienna (1991). Studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), graduated 1999. She has shown in many international exhibitions.
Robert Svoboda (1959, Vienna, Austria). Lives and works in Lower Austria and Vienna. Graduated from Vienna Art School (1984). Since 1984 has been working in graphic design, art print and as a freelance painter and sculptor. Appeared in many solo and group exhibitions.
Rosa Roedelius (1975, Forst/Bevern, Germany). Lives and works mainly in Baden and Vienna. As a painter and sculptress, she works in different fields such as stage design, performance and installations in public spaces. She has held exhibitions and projects worldwide.
Ruth Brauner (1975, Mödling, Lower Austria). Lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. Graduated from the University for Applied Arts, academic studies in arts and graphics, Vienna, (2002). She was awarded several scholarships and has held numerous group and single exhibitions and public acquisitions since 2000.
Danijel Babić (1967, Očauš, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He graduated from the College of Applied and Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (Art of Painting – 1995). He has participated in many various collective exhibitions in Serbia and abroad.
Gala Čaki (1987, Zrenjanin, Serbia). Bachelor degree from the Department of Fine Arts, Section for Painting, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (2010). Master studies at the Department of Fine Arts, Sections for Painting and Drawing, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad (2011). Participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Received many awards for her artwork.
Jelena Sredanović (1982, Novi Sad, Serbia). Graduated from the Academy of Arts (2005) and obtained an MA in 2009. Jelena is a research assistant at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and a PhD student at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She received many awards and exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions.
Korina Gubik (1983, Senta, Serbia). Lives and works in Novi Sad. Graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Has had many group and solo exhibitions. Received several awards for her artwork.
Lea Vidaković (1983, Subotica, Serbia). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia (2011), MA in audio visual arts at the Royal Academy of Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium (2012). She has held many international group and solo exhibitions.
Maja Erdeljanin (1971, Novi Sad, Serbia). Graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (1995). Master’s degree in Painting from the same Academy (2008). Participated in many solo and collective exhibitions, art colonies, AIR programs and symposiums in Serbia and abroad.
Milan Jakšić (1952, Osijek, Croatia). Lives and works in Pančevo, Serbia. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (1979). Working and exhibiting since 1971.
Miloš Vujanović (1965, Podgorica, Montenegro). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (1991), MA in 2000. He received several awards for his artwork, illustrations, and educational work and has had many solo and group exhibitions.
Nada Denić (1954, Koljane, Dalmatia). Lives and works in Pančevo, Serbia. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1979 and received a Master of Arts degree. Member of ULUS (Serbian Society of Fine Arts) since 1980. Working and exhibiting since 1977.
Pal Dečov (1951, Skorenovac, Serbia). Graduated from the Art Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia (1980). MA in Fine Arts from Belgrade (1983). He has had many solo and group international exhibitions. Lives and works in Opovo, Serbia.
Radmila Matejević Janković (1984, Aleksinac, Serbia). Graduated from the Department of Arts, Niš University, where she received her PhD. She obtained many awards for her artwork and has participated in numerous international group and solo exhibitions.
Tucović Vidoje (1968, Požega, Serbia). Graduated and received an MA from the Art Academy in Novi Sad. A professor of icon and wall painting (fresco and mural), he has held many group and solo exhibitions. His paintings are in numerous private collections around the world and he has painted several iconostasis and frescoes in churches in Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.
Željana Jurković (1987, Novi Sad, Serbia). Studied sculpture at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Novi Sad (2010), where she received MA degree in sculpture (2012). The recipient of awards, she has held many solo and group exhibitions.
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Babos Zsili Bertalan (1980, Budapest, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest. He studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Painting (2001–2006). Appeared in many exhibitions in Hungary and also in Spain.
Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić (1971, Novi Sad,Serbia) lives and works in Novi Sad. After graduating from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (1994) she did her postgraduate studies at the Department of Painting, finishing in 2000. A member of the ULUV and ULUS art associations and the Multiflex group, she is currently a professor and head of the Painting Department at the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad. Her professional interests are painting, sculpture, multimedia projects and she has won several prizes and awards for her works in Serbia. So far, she has appeared in over 90 group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Biljana Djurdjević completed her studies at the University of Art in Belgrade in 1997. In 2000 she completed her postgraduate degree also in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Her paintings are very much in demand by collectors worldwide. Orientated on the techniques of the old Masters in oil painting, in the past years she has created remarkable works which were shown in single and in group exhibitions in Europe, USA, Russia and Australia. The subject of her work is continually concerned with the specific effects of violence and threats which she illustrates figuratively and with dramatic undertones.
Christoph Schwarz (1981, Vienna, Austria) Lives and works in Vienna. Graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2006), he continued his education at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and at the Jiří David conceptual art studio. A multimedia artist, he works in performance, installations and short film. Participated in the Sarajevo Film festival, ORF III Artist-in-Residence programe and the residency programe Black Sea Calling.
Christian Eder (born 1964 in Bregenz, Austria) Lives and works in Vienna and Bregenz. Completes studies, university Vienna and Innsbruck, he worked in Mexico, Chile and Guatemala. London – Scholarship of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Arts (1997). Participated in exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Poland, Italy and the artist in residence program 2014 in Paliano/Italy. Works are a part of corporate and private collections in Austria, Germany, Poland, Italy and Mexico.
diSTRUKTURA Milica Miličević (1979) and Milan Bosnić (1969) live and work in Belgrade. Mastering in painting from Belgrade University’s Department of Fine Arts, they have been working as a couple since 2005. Their ideas are expressed in diverse media, mainly photography, painting, drawing and video. To date, they have mounted exhibitions in Serbia, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and Finland. Their works are to be seen in private, public and corporate collections in Austria, Slovenia and Serbia. In addition, they have taken part in artist-in-residence programmes and workshops in the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Egypt and Finland.
Eros Apolka (1978, Budapest, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest, where she graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Department for Art History and Visual Pedagogy, while at the same time studying at the Department of Sculptural Arts (1999-2002). Today she is a manager and leading teacher of the Apolka Art School. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Hungary, the Netherlands, Thailand and other countries.
Andrea Palašti obtained her BFA and MFA degree from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad at the Department of Photography. Since 2006 she has been exhibiting widely and working together with other artists, artistic collectives and initiatives. As a stipendiary of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia, she is currently a PhD fellow at the University of Arts, at the department for Art and Media Theory in Belgrade. She is working across artistic and curatorial boundaries that centers on context-specific uses of art, with particular attention to socio-cultural processes. Lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Eva Petrič (Kranj, 1983, Slovenia) currently lives in Vienna. She joined a high level IB art program in New York (2002). Graduating in psychology from Webster University, Vienna (2005), she obtained a BA in visual art from the same University (2006). In 2010 she acquired an MFA in new media at the Transart Institute of the New York-Berlin-Danube University, Krems. She is a member of the Kunstlerhaus Vienna, PEN Club Austria and the Slovene Fine Artists Association.
Fritz Ruprechter (1950, Matrei, Austria), lives and works in Maria Lanzendorf near Vienna. He studied painting at the Applied Arts Department of Vienna University and at the Academy Minerva in Groningen, Netherlands, and spent six months at the Academy of Art in Cork, Ireland. Participated in many group and solo exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Serbia.
Georg Gartz (1955, Cologne, Germany) lives and works in Cologne, where he studied fine art at the Fachochschule. He has held many group and solo exhibitions both in Germany and abroad. Engaged in researching painting, sculpture and installations, his works are a part of many private and public collections.
Georgia Creimer (1964, São Paulo, Brazil) Lives and works in Vienna. She studied art at the FAAP Academy in São Paulo, giving her first solo-show at the Galeria Monica Filgueiras. In 1985 she moved to Vienna. Since then, she has taken part in numerous art-shows in Austria and abroad. She has also won several art competitions.
István Orosz (1951, Kecskemét, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest after graduating from the Hungarian University of Arts and Design in 1975. A graphic artist and animated film maker, Orosz is a regular participant in international art exhibitions, symposiums and film festivals. Film director at the Kecskemétfilm Studio and a professor at the West Hungarian University in Sopron. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Hungary, USA, Turkey, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Greece, Serbia. He is a holder of many prizes and awards.
Josef Linschinger (1945, Gmunden, Austria) lives and works in Traunkirchen. Graduating from the University of Art and Design in Linz, he was a lecturer, then professor at the same University (1975-2003). A graphic artist, from 1987 he began to work on visual-conceptual poetry. He was engaged on the Konstruktive Strömungen project as organizer and curator of the Gmundner Symposium for Concrete Art (1990 – 2009). Since 1981, he has exhibited in many European countries, Ecuador, Israel, Japan, Canada, Korea and the USA.
József R. Juhász (1963, Slovakia) lives and works in Budapest. Performance artist and poet, he has given hundreds of performances and published four books on experimental poetry. Since 1987 he is the leader of the international multimedia Studio erté at Nové Zámky (Slovakia), whose objective is to support performance and multimedia art. Until the present, he has organized 22 international multimedia performance art festivals. Co-founder of the Kassák Centre in 2000, from 2009 he has held several performance art workshops in Slovakia.
Leopold Kessler (1976, Munich, Germany) Lives and works in Vienna. Having studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1996–1998), he continued his studies at the Vienna Academy (1998–2004). Since 2000 he works mainly in public spaces. His interventions, videos and sculptures deal with the conditions of social behavior.
Liliana Mercioiu Popa (1975, Târgu-Jiu, Romania) lives and works in Timișoara. Graduated from the Arts and Design Department of Timişoara University in 1998, she has been teaching at the Department of Painting since 1999. She is a founder member of the IN-FORMAT group, formed in 2001 and has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Romania and abroad.
Ljubomir Vučinić (1956, Čurug, Serbia) lives and works in Novi Sad where he mastered in graphics from the Academy of Arts in 2002. In the course of his career, he was programe editor at the Novi Sad Cultural Center, art editor of Polje magazine, art programe editor of the International Alternative festival and New Theatre INFANT (1997-2005). Since 2005, he has been working at the Academy of Art in Novi Sad, Department of Drawing.
Mira Brtka (1930, Novi Banovci, Serbia), graduated in film editing from the Academy of Theatre, Film and Television in Belgrade (1954). From 1960 to 1970, she lived and worked in Rome where she graduated in painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti (1964). Brtka was a member of the international art group Illumination and the International Art Association Office for Preventive Imagination founded in Rome in 1970. In 1971 she moved to Serbia where she established Brtka-Kresoja Foundation and a gallery (2011). She owns a studio in Bratislava, but lives and works in Stara Pazova and Novi Sad.
Nataša Teofilović (1968, Niš, Serbia) lives and works in Pančevo. Graduating architecture from Belgrade University in 1997, she obtained MA and PhD in Digital Art from the Interdisciplinary Studies program of the Belgrade University of Arts. She was an assistant at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad, Department of Architecture from 1997 to 2000. A multimedia artist working in architecture, photography and video, she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad.
Nenad Bogdanović (1955, Odžaci, Serbia). lives and works in Odžaci. He is a multimedia artist, founder of the Multimedia Art Studio and MAS Gallery in Odžaci (1998), organizer and curator of the International Multimedia Art Festival – IMAF. Since 1980 Nenad Bogdanović has participated in many international art projects and festivals and gave two art performances at the 50th International Biennial in Venice (2003).
Nita Tandon (1959, Ajmer, India). lives and works in Vienna. She acquired a BA degree in English Literature from Delhi University in 1978, going on to study art history at Vienna University (1979 – 1980) and painting at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna (1980-1986). She has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, since 1997. She currently runs the Department of TransArts as member of its Directorial Team. So far she has exhibited on numerous occasions in Austria and internationally.
Petar Ćurčić (1938, Novi Sad, Serbia). Lives and works in Novi Sad. Graduated from the Department of Philosophy Department of Novi Sad University in 1963. He is self taught in drawing, painting and graphics. Up to the present, he has held many exhibitions both at home and abroad. Member of the ULUV and ULUS art associations, he has won several awards and prizes.
Robert Hammerstiel (1933, Vršac, Serbia). Austrian painter and graphic artist, lives and works in Vienna and Ternitz. Recognized in Italy, Bulgaria, Austria, Poland and Germany through numerous awards, he has participated in many international symposiums, solo and group exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France, Serbia, Switzerland, etc. His works are a part of many museums, corporate and private collections in Austria, USA, Spain, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Japan. He is also Honorary member of the Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Art.
Silke Maier-Gamauf (1969, Nenzing, Austria). Lives and works in Vienna. She studied painting and photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna and also attended the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London (1997). Won two important scholarships in 2003 and 2004 and has resided in India and the USA (Chicago and New York). In 2013 she received a scholarship to work in the town of Paliano, Italy.
Viktor Hulík (1949, Bratislava, Slovakia) lives and works in Bratislava where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1968 to 1974. In 1996 he founded the ARTlines agency and Gallery Z in Bratislava. He is a member of many artists’ groups and has held many group and individual exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad, winning a number of prizes and awards in Slovakia and internationally.
Villö Steiner (1970, Budapest, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest. She studied at the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, Department for Textile, Print and Design (1999-2004) and subsequently won several awards and scholarships: Athens Fine Arts (2003); Erasmus Scholarship (2004). She has participated in many exhibitions in Hungary.
Vladimir Frelih (Osijek, Croatia) Lives in Osijek. Graduating from the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf (2000), he has since won many awards. His works are on display in several private and public contemporary art collections and museums (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Stadt Dusseldorf, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb). He is a senior lecturer at the Fine Arts Department of the Art Academy in Osijek where he teaches video, film and photography. Since 2010 he has been teaching methods of artistic exploration and visual culture at the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad.